Re: The 2ed Amendment as a Gun Nuts Wet Dream

On 26 Nov 2003 13:45:33 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (ulTRAX) wrote:

>It's rather curious that the Gun Nuts find a universal right to bear
>arms in language that clearly doesn't intend one: "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."
>
>If the First Congress intended a universal right all they had to do
>was simply write "Congress shall make no law abridging the right to
>bear arms." Now that would be a Gun Nut's wet dream. No more having to
>rewrite history or force round pegs in square holes.
>   

    Isn't that what you prohibitionist sympathizers do?

>How about "People being necessary to the security of a free state, the
>right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed."
>
>Or better yet: "A unorganized rabble, being necessary to the security
>of a free state, the right of untrained people to keep and bear arms,
>shall not be infringed."
> 
>Any others?


     The right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be
infringed,.