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MA: The Most Crucial and Often Overlooked Part of the Second Amendment
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Mark A. Taff
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We’ve all heard it before: gun control is unconstitutional because the Second Amendment says that “the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.” But I want to ask: how many of us have actually stopped to consider it?
Notice how the word “people” is used rather than “persons.” The Oxford Dictionary defines “people” as a “human beings in general or considered collectively.” “Person,” on the other hand, is defined as a "human being regarded as an individual." It is clear from this that the Second Amendment describes a collective right, not an individual right. |
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PP9
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Sorry, but the concept of the "collective right" hadn't yet been invented at the time of the ratification of the Bill of Rights. It wouldn't be for more than 100 years... |
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No kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave. He, who has nothing, and who himself belongs to another, must be defended by him, whose property he is, and needs no arms. But he, who thinks he is his own master, and has what he can call his own, ought to have arms to defend himself, and what he possesses; else he lives precariously, and at discretion. — James Burgh, Political Disquisitions: Or, an Enquiry into Public Errors, Defects, and Abuses [London, 1774-1775]. |
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