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| Comment by:
PHORTO
(4/16/2020)
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Baloney. Reduced to its essence, the sentence can be accurately represented thus:
"Because of that, we are guaranteeing this." "That" does not equal "this." They are two different things. |
| Comment by:
MarkHamTownsend
(4/16/2020)
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"Absolute phrase???"
Huh?
The "well regulated militia" part is an "exemplar."
That it might be interpreted to protect the right of a state to maintain a militia, does nothing to change the fact that the second part, "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed," was absolutly intended to do EXACTLY AS THE PHRASE DIRECTLY STATES.
The guy is a "grammarian?" Really?
I'm sorry, the guy hasn't much of a clue. |
| Comment by:
PHORTO
(4/16/2020)
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MarkHamTownsend -
He's a "grammarian" with an anti-gun agenda.
His methodology is a dead giveaway.
Thomas Jefferson explained to Supreme Court Justice William Johnson, June 12, 1823: “On every question of construction, carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed.”
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| I do believe that where there is a choice only between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908 [by an Indian extremist opposed to Gandhi's agreement with Smuts], whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defend me, I told him it was his duty to defend me even by using violence. Hence it was that I took part in the Boer War, the so-called Zulu Rebellion and [World War I]. Hence also do I advocate training in arms for those who believe in the method of violence. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honor than that she should in a cowardly manner become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor. — Mohandas K. Gandhi, Young India, August 11, 1920 from Fischer, Louis ed.,The Essential Gandhi, 1962 |
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