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ME: Second Amendment deserves a closer look
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Mark A. Taff
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Most of the communications I receive press their message in the third and fourth phrases and ignore the first two phrases. This, to me, is a totally biased viewpoint and, in my estimation, calls for some kind of action, possibly another amendment. In any event, it should at least give us the freedom to regulate gun ownership in whatever manner is deemed necessary. |
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teebonicus
(6/27/2015)
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No comments section for that article, so....
First, the 2A has only two clauses and one comma. That is the version submitted for ratification, and is in fact the version that was ratified.
That said, the opening phrase is a dependent clause. The declaration of the right is an independent clause. Dependent clauses "depend" on independent clauses for their context, not the reverse, hence; "dependent clauses".
DUH.
As well, the 2A is a guarantee, not a right-generator.
"The right there specified is that of 'bearing arms for a lawful purpose.' This is not a right granted by the Constitution. Neither is it in any manner dependent upon that instrument for its existence." - U S v. CRUIKSHANK, 92 U.S. 542 (1875) 92 U.S. 542
Wadda dimwit.
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jac
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| These people think they know it all. They don't care about facts. |
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| Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? Where is the difference between having our arms in possession and under our direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands? — Patrick Henry, 3 J. Elliot, Debates in the Several State Conventions 45, 2d ed. Philadelphia, 1836 |
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