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RI: A primer on the Second Amendment
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Mark A. Taff
Website: http://www.marktaff.com
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Michael F. Kraemer is a retired Rhode Island attorney and a volunteer with the Rhode Island Coalition Against Gun Violence who has testified before the judiciary committees of the Rhode Island House and Senate.
The right to bear arms established under the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution is often misunderstood. Given the proposed firearms legislation pending in the General Assembly, it is important to understand what the law does and does not protect. |
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MarkHamTownsend
(3/4/2021)
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| For a lawyer this author just does not have a clue. |
| Comment by:
PHORTO
(3/4/2021)
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Well, he starts off with a blatant lie.
"The Court did not establish any other right regarding gun ownership, beyond 'the right ... to use arms in defense of hearth and home.'"
What an arrogant piece of nonsense!
Held:
1. The Second Amendment protects an individual right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia, and to use that arm for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home. Pp. 2–53.
Let me repeat that: "...to use that arm FOR TRADITIONALLY LAWFUL PURPUSES, SUCH AS self-defense within the home." (emphasis mine)
The author's 'interpretation' doesn't merely distort the precedent, it unconscionably misrepresents it. |
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| To trust arms in the hands of the people at large has, in Europe, been believed...to be an experiment fraught only with danger. Here by a long trial it has been proved to be perfectly harmless...If the government be equitable; if it be reasonable in its exactions; if proper attention be paid to the education of children in knowledge and religion, few men will be disposed to use arms, unless for their amusement, and for the defence of themselves and their country. — Timothy Dwight, Travels in New England and New York [London 1823] |
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