Gun Dyke wrote:
> Jeffrey Turner <jturner@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote :
>
>
>>Gun Dyke wrote:
>>
>>
>>>"A well-educated electorate being necessary to the security of a
>>>free state, the right of the people to keep and read books shall not
>>>be infringed." Does that mean only well-educated people have a right
>>>to own and read books?
>>
>>It means all members of the electorate have a right to books. But
>>the Constitution doesn't limit the right to own books in that way.
>
> Or guns.
Of course it does. The reason to allow people to have guns was the
necessity of a well-regulated militia. Times change. We no longer
need a militia, so there's no longer a right to guns.
>>>Then how can this: "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." possibly mean
>>>that only members of the militia have a right to own weapons? - 101
>>>Things to Do 'Til the Revolution, by Claire Wolfe.
>>
>>Because it matches the above.
>>
>>
>>>For help with parsing english sentences and reading the 2nd
>>>Amendment:
>>>http://www.libertyhaven.com/personalfreedomissues/guns/readingsecond.
>>>html
>>
>>I'm sorry you have such a gun fetish.
--Jeff
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When wealth and the wealthy are valued in
the city, virtue and good men are less valued.
What is valued is practiced, what is not valued
is not practiced. --Plato
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