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To: sneakypete
sneakypete said: "You are a gun-grabber staking out your claim based on the bizarre claim that nukes and bio/chemical weapons are the equivalent of semi-auto rifles. "

No. I stated that our Founders did not intend to grant the federal government the power to decide which arms may be kept and born by the people. You don't seem to be able to address that point. Instead, you attribute opinions to me which are not relevant to what the Constitution does or does not permit.

Perhaps you don't care that Congress now decides what powers the federal government will have. That is not what our Founders intended.

292 posted on 02/12/2003 2:34:09 AM PST by William Tell
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To: William Tell; Admin Moderator
No. I stated that our Founders did not intend to grant the federal government the power to decide which arms may be kept and born by the people. You don't seem to be able to address that point.

I HAVE addresses that very point,in every damn post I've made to you. It's not MY fault you are too pig-headed to accept it. The 2nd Amendment RECOGONIZES that each citizen has a INDIVIDUAL right to own and possess WEAPONS TYPICALLY CARRIED BY THE INDIVIDUAL SOLDIER. This is clear from reading the Federalist and the anti-Federalist papers. Crew served weapons and stragetic weapons were not addressed because there was no need to address them. Individual soldiers do NOT carry crew-served or strategic weapons into combat with them.

There is also the issue of TYPES of weapons. Being the bonehead anti-gunner that you are you are refusing to recoginize the VAST difference between a semi-automatic weapon and weapons of mass destruction. You are taking the idiotic (when the idiot is having a bad day) position that if it's ok for Bubba Kluxer or Antwan Gangbanger to have a semi-automatic rifle,it should also be ok for them to have nukes or vials of anthrax or smallpox.

What you REALLY are is a troll who is here hoping you can find some retard to agree with you that possessing WMD is the equivalent of possessing a semi-auto rifle,and then you can go back to your gun control buddies and make the claim that semi-autos are the equivalent of weapons of mass destruction,and pro-gunners want to be able to own nukes and bio/chemical weapons. You think it is clever to back yourself into a corner and take a absolutionist radical position,but that only exposes you for the radical statist that you really are. You can't find the situation you want to exploit naturally,so you are trying to create it.

293 posted on 02/12/2003 6:19:32 AM PST by sneakypete
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