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Lloyd Miller wrote:
> -Caveat Lector-
>
> No! The Amendment says, in effect: _Because_ a well regulated militia is
> necessary, _then_ the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed!
> The arms involved should be those normally used by soldiers in WAR! Assault
> rifles, if not 50 Caliber Machine guns, should be legal!
>
> THE RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED....it doesn't matter
> why....that is what the Bill of Rights says! No licensing, no registration,
> no prohibition of carrying concealed weapons! The Founding Fathers were
> all gun nuts! The first thing the British tried to do in Boston was seize
> supplies of powder and ball! The Founding Fathers knew that liberty must be
> defended on occasion by just violence!
>
> Citizens who misuse guns should be punished severely. Using a gun in a
> crime of any kind is threatened murder and should result in the death
> penalty or life in prison.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dr. Ken Larsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Wednesday, June 02, 1999 2:48 PM
> Subject: RE: Constitutional gun control
>
> One friend wrote:
>
> >Ken,
> >
> >But the 2nd Amendment gives a specific "well-regulated" purpose for bearing
> >arms, right? It does not use the word individual. Also, the Supreme
> >Court, or so I have been told, has never interpreted the 2nd amendment to
> >apply on the level of the individual.
And rightly so, since the amendment does not speak to the individual, but to
congress. 9 of the first 10 amendments were written to prevent congress from
passing laws infringing those rights. When the Supreme court ruled some years ago
that the second amendment conferred no new rights for the citizens, it was
correct! The rights preceded those amendments.
Jim
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