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'Armed in America' asks exactly what the Founding Fathers intended with the Second Amendment
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Patrick J. Charles doesn’t keep readers in suspense as to his interpretation. In his introduction to Armed in America: A History of Gun Rights from Colonial Militias to Concealed Carry, Mr. Charles states: “the Second Amendment was neither legally intended nor legally understood by the Founding Fathers as protecting a right to armed individual self-defense.”
So there you have it – if you buy into Charles’s detailed exegesis. Charles, a historian and legal scholar, spent almost 10 years digging deeply into the issue of gun rights. And he has written a credible record of what he learned, which led to his conclusions. |
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dasing
(1/27/2018)
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| And what country is he talking about????????????? |
| Comment by:
MarkHamTownsend
(1/27/2018)
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"The right of the people ..." apparently doesn't mean what it says to Patrick J. Charles.
All throughout the Federalist Papers you can find justifications and explanations for what the founders gave us with the Constitution and Bill of Rights. Did Mr. Charles pay any attention? |
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