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To: DJ MacWoW
He banned "assault" weapons. They're guns. Where is it in the Constitution that he can do that?

Nowhere that I can find.

"A well regulated Militia, being NECESSARY to the security of a free State, the RIGHT of the people to keep and bear Arms, SHALL NOT be infringed."

These folks seem to miss the point that Romney banned the exact sort of weaponry that the British went out to Lexington and Concord to try and confiscate.

Somehow I don't think ANY of the founding generation would be amused.


252 posted on 07/18/2012 8:23:34 AM PDT by EternalVigilance (Hitler was a socialist who ran against the communists. They said he was the 'lesser of two evils.')
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To: EternalVigilance
Somehow I don't think ANY of the founding generation would be amused.

You are right, they would not.

"The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed."
Alexander Hamilton

Laws that forbid the carrying of arms... disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.
Thomas Jefferson

266 posted on 07/18/2012 11:38:08 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (My faith and politics cannot be separated)
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