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

"ulTRAX" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Bill Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > Revisionist historians like to tell us it preserves the State's power
> > to maintain a militia. Why doesn't it say;
> >
> > "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free
> > state, the power if the several States to establish and maintain a
> > militia shall not be infringed."
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> Perhaps because it was the People (white males... etc) that owned the
> guns... not the states.

Interesting....you refer to the citizens as "The People".....odd that when
you read this in the 2nd Amendment you feel this term means the states.