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Originally Posted by Bob Drake
They would be enraged if they could come back and see the daily carnage that we have allowed on our streets, in no small part due to our bizarre obsession with the wording of the 2nd Amendment.
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The right of the citizen to keep and bear arms does not depend upon "the wording of the 2nd Amendment." No matter what significance you place upon the words of the 2nd the absolute silence of the Constitution regarding the private arms of the citizen is even more telling regarding the founder's intent. No power was ever conferred to the federal government to act against the private arms of the citizen so none exists.
The 2nd Amendment is a redundancy forbidding the exercise of powers that do not exist.
The reason we have high crime is that we have a peculiar way of dealing with those who attack, injure and kill the responsible members of society . . .we put them back out on the street.
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Originally Posted by Bob Drake
I can almost hear Thomas Jefferson now: It would probably go something like:
"What have you people done?? This is not what we meant!!" |
Oh please, not another, "I'm using bold and big fonts because I'm all seeing!" poster.