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To: Dr.Syn

I don’t think it was ever in the Founders’ minds to ever deny a person’s right to self-protection. I think it was just absolutely a given considering the threats and needs pioneers and revolutionaries faced daily. It was probably foreign to a man of the sixteenth century that you would ever try to take away his means of self-protection.


12 posted on 10/17/2007 12:29:30 PM PDT by TheThinker (Foreign campaign contributions should be criminal. This is not democracy at work.)
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To: TheThinker
"I don’t think it was ever in the Founders’ minds to ever deny a person’s right to self-protection."

A person’s right to self-protection with a gun? That right was only protected for a certain class of citizens -- primarily white, male landowners.

Non-whites didn't have that right protected. Nor women, children, foreign visitors, illegal aliens, Indians, prisoners, the insane ... quite a few persons did not have that right protected.

Now, that's not to say they couldn't have guns. Just that their right to have them wasn't protected.

17 posted on 10/17/2007 12:56:36 PM PDT by robertpaulsen
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To: TheThinker
"I don’t think it was ever in the Founders’ minds to ever deny a person’s right to self-protection."

A person’s right to self-protection with a gun? That right was only protected for a certain class of citizens -- primarily white, male landowners.

Non-whites didn't have that right protected. Nor women, children, foreign visitors, illegal aliens, Indians, prisoners, the insane ... quite a few persons did not have that right protected.

Now, that's not to say they couldn't have guns. Just that their right to have them wasn't protected.

18 posted on 10/17/2007 12:56:49 PM PDT by robertpaulsen
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