Re: Kiddie exercises his right to bear arms

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
 Don Homuth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 07:21:34 GMT, "Koc77" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> >The second amendment states that "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."  When the constitution was written, all able
> >bodied males were the militia.
> 
> But *not* the Militia -- as described within the Constitution.
> 
> That entity is described operationally in Art 1(8)(15-16) and Art
> 2(2)(1).
> 
> It never was some rump group just getting together.
> 
> It always was for the Congress to arm, train and organize it.  Its
> purposes were three and three only -- and None of them was to foment
> an insurrection, even obliquely.
> 
> And that Militia is now the National Guard.
> 
> There is no other with a Constitutional basis.

Jeeezzuz!  Self serv gas and the Second Amendment both in the same 
thread.

It must be the silly season.