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

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.
>    
> 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?

	Buy a copy of "The Origin of the Second Amendment, A Documentary History of the 
Bill of Rights in Commentaries on LIBERTY, FREE GOVERNMENT, and an ARMED 
POPULACE 1787-1792" edited by David E. Young, Second Edition, 2001.

	I own a copy, and have read much of it, it proves you wrong.

Pat Hines