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The Second Amendment is not a blank check to own every weapon imaginable
Submitted by:
Mark A. Taff
Website: http://www.marktaff.com
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Now, let me ask you a question: do you see any items in that list that you don’t want the average US citizen to be able to possess and use for self- and property defense purposes?
If the answer is yes, then congratulations, you have something in common with gun control advocates. You agree that there are some arms which are so dangerous that no citizen should be allowed to possess them. You, like the majority of Americans and the Supreme Court of the United States of America, believe that the Second Amendment is subject to reasonable limitations. The question for you is where to draw the line. |
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laker1
(2/2/2017)
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| At the time you could own cannon, musket, kegs of black powder. |
| Comment by:
dasing
(2/2/2017)
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| That is exactly what the 2A is ! |
| Comment by:
dasing
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| 2A is niether a self defense or property defense, it is a defense of the State against the FED ! |
| Comment by:
PHORTO
(2/2/2017)
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The Second Amendment IS a blank check to own the following weapons: arms “in common use” that have “some reasonable relationship to the preservation or efficiency of a well-regulated militia” and/or are “any part of the ordinary military equipment” (U.S. v Miller, 1939).
In ruling that defendant Miller’s sawed-off shotgun wasn’t within the ambit of Second Amendment protection, the above criteria were established. “Switchblades” of the front-opening variety were also part of the “ordinary military equipment” issued to paratroopers in WWII and thereafter.
The upshot of that precedent is that military small arms commonly carried by individual foot soldiers are those the bearing of which the Second Amendment was enumerated to protect.
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| By calling attention to a well-regulated militia for the security of the Nation, and the right of each citizen to keep and bear arms, our Founding Fathers recognized the essentially civilian nature of our economy. Although it is extremely unlikely that the fears of governmental tyranny, which gave rise to the second amendment, will ever be a major danger to our Nation, the amendment still remains an important declaration of our basic military-civilian relationships, in which every citizen must be ready to participate in the defense of the country. For that reason I believe the second amendment will always be important. --JOHN F. KENNEDY |
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