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

"Leif Rakur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (ulTRAX) wrote in message
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> > 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.
>
> Leif speaking:  Sure, except Congress would have used the word "carry"
> rather than "bear," since the phrase "bear arms" referred specifically
> to armed military service.

Really, so if I bear a bag of stone....I am rendering armed military
service?

Sorry, but period sources clearly show that one can bear arms while hunting,
and that is NOT a reference to armed military service.