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

Roger wrote:
> "David Lentz" <dlentz10@/*NOSPAM*/rochester.rr.com> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> > Speedbyrd wrote:
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > > > > And that can be changed and that is what I'm doing my part to help to
> happen.
>
> > > > > You anti-government radicals make me tired.  You wouldn't be such a
> bigmouth without the firearm.  It's go to
>
> > > > > go.
> > > >
> > > > I find it amusing that my simple assertion of a fundamental right
> > > > to keep and bear arms is labeled as as anti government tirade.  I
> > > > also note that the same hoplophobe finds the Constitution be to
> > > > an impediment, much like B.J. Clinton did and the United Nations
> > > > does.
> > > >
> > > > David
> > >
> > > I'm thrilled that you're amused.
> > > Bearing arms is NOT a right, whether you like it or not.
> > >
> > >    The Speedbyrd :>
> >
> > It seems almost unfair to pick on the historically challenged.
>
>
> There is no individual right to keep and bear arms. Look at the court
> decisions. Look at the law. If there was such a right, the gun control laws
> on the books would have been overturned. They have not.

Are you going to seriously try arguing a case for court infallibility?


> > Such is life:
> >
> > When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one
> > people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them
> > with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the
> > separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of
> > Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of
> > mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel
> > them to the separation.
> >
> > We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are
> > created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with
> > certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty
> > and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights,
> > Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers
> > from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of
> > Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of
> > the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new
> > Government, laying its foundation on such principles and
> > organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most
> > likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed,
> > will dictate that Governments long established should not be
> > changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all
> > experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer,
> > while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by
> > abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a
> > long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the
> > same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute
> > Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such
> > Government, and to provide new Guards for their future
> > security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these
> > Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to
> > alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the
> > present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries
> > and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of
> > an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts
> > be submitted to a candid world.
> >
> > A citizen of the United States is assumed to have the God given
> > right to dissolve his political bonds.  So said Thomas
> > Jefferson.  So we did absolve are bonds to King George.  For a
> > free citizenry to retain her inherent power to absolve her
> > government,  she must remain armed.  The militia was armed on
> > April 19, 1775 and free citizens must retains that same right
> > today.
> >
> > David