On Feb 6, 2007, at 1:28 PM, Ed Leafe wrote: > On Feb 6, 2007, at 1:23 PM, David Crooks wrote: > >> How can anyone prove that??? Did they have the same thermometers 200 >> years ago that are in use today??? There is no way!!! >> >>> Some global warming. >> >> I agree. I was cold in Albany, NY 200 years ago and guess what? >> It is >> still cold in Albany, NY. LOL! > > I love how some people only read half of something. They see a term > such as "global warming" and completely miss the 'global' part of it. > Sort of like the same brilliant minds who read the 2nd Amendment as > guaranteeing the unfettered right to keep and bear arms, completely > missing the "well-regulated militia" part.
Or how some people read the whole part of something, entirely out of context. The purpose of the 'well-regulated militia' was to protect the people from an oppressive government, and was not intended to establish a particular "well-regulated militia", as some seem curiously to argue. Rather, by making the right to keep and bear arms universal to all citizens in the Bill of Rights, and not just to some special "militia" class, this formulation allowed for the people to self- organize into "well-regulated" militia as needed to defend themselves from tyranny. In general, our founders were into "self- regulation" (particularly of the small-r "republican" variety), not nanny government. The enhancements to the federal power and consolidation under a single federal government under the Constitution was an economic necessity. Nevertheless, the founders still saw fit to guarantee each state in the union a "republican" form of government, and each citizen a right to keep and bear arms. They hardly envisioned the federal government confiscating guns from everyone except the police or army. Maybe one or two of them thought that was a good idea (after all, they did discuss the various alternatives, and even my hero Hamilton had a brain fart about re-establishing monarchy), but the consensus was to state explicitly a right to keep an bear arms to all, and the reason sited was not just so the government could regulate some once and future national guard or whatever, but rather because an oppressive government could only be countered by a people armed to defend themselves. Context Ed is just as important as the precise wording of a phrase. - Bob > > -- Ed Leafe > -- http://leafe.com > -- http://dabodev.com > > > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
