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

Chris Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: 

> But then you're more likely to see Harrison cite Nathan
> Bedford Forrest. 

Forrest would be the guy who believed in fake personal gun 
rights, like the ones exalted by KKK and neo-nazi groups 
pretending to be militias.

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To make this view of the case still more clear, we may 
remark that the phrase, "bear arms," is used in the Kentucky 
constitution as well as in our own, and implies, as has 
already been suggested, their military use. The 28th section 
of our bill of rights provides "that no citizen of this 
state shall be compelled to bear arms provided he will pay 
an equivalent, to be ascertained by law." Here we know that 
the phrase has a military sense, and no other; and we must 
infer that it is used in the same sense in the 26th section, 
which secures to the citizen the right to bear arms.  A man 
in the pursuit of deer, elk, and buffaloes might carry his 
rifle every day for forty years, and yet it would never be 
said of him that he had borne arms; much less could it be 
said that a private citizen bears arms because he has a dirk 
or pistol concealed under his clothes, or a spear in a cane. 
So that, with deference, we think the argument of the court 
in the case referred to, even upon the question it has 
debated, is defective and inconclusive.

Aymette v. State, 2 Humphreys 154 (Tenn. 1840)

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