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NV: Sheriff is wrong about Second Amendment
Submitted by:
Mark A. Taff
Website: http://www.marktaff.com
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The Second Amendment was conceived against a background of hostility toward a standing army and at a time when reliance on a militia was adequate. It was thought that the people needed to be armed so that a militia would be available should the need arise.
Today, people neither keep nor bear arms as part of a militia. Therefore, the arms they keep are not protected by the Second Amendment. |
| Comment by:
dasing
(6/30/2016)
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| Another talking head that knows nothing about the subject at hand. The militia is out there with/or without the Gov. |
| Comment by:
MarkHamTownsend
(6/30/2016)
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"Today, people neither keep nor bear arms as part of a militia. Therefore, the arms they keep are not protected by the Second Amendment."
WRONG.
We, the People, are part of the unorganized militia, per the Uniform Militia Act of 1792.
Also (*SIGH!*) the second amendment states "the right of the PEOPLE to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." Notice it does NOT say the right of the MILITIA, but THE PEOPLE?
Right?
How is this unclear?
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| Comment by:
punch
(6/30/2016)
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| Florida has an organized militia. Go to http://www.flmilitia.org/ |
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| Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any bands of regular troops that can be, on any pretense, raised in the United States. — Noah Webster in "An Examination into the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution," 1787, in Paul Ford, ed., Pamphlets on the Constitution of the United States, at p. 56 (New York, 1888). |
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