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To: libstripper
What a Maroon. He quotes the second amendment twice, and gets it wrong both times. Of course what he leaves out gives lie to his basic thesis, so leaving it out twice is very telling.

The famous Second Amendment reads: "The right of the people to bear arms shall not be infringed".

The full Second Amendment reads: "A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to bear arms shall not be infringed."

The little part about the right to keep arms gives complete lie to the theory that:
it was the right of the people to organise and arm themselves as militias, repeat militias, that was being guaranteed, not the right to carry arms when on private business.

He shows he doesn't even understand what probate was and is, that is a record of what person owned *at the time of his death*. They were notoriously incomplete anyway, as children and grandchildren helped themselves to the possessions of the the departed (often before departure) before filing the paperwork.

15 posted on 07/15/2006 7:29:28 AM PDT by El Gato
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To: El Gato
He shows he doesn't even understand what probate was and is, that is a record of what person owned *at the time of his death*. They were notoriously incomplete anyway, as children and grandchildren helped themselves to the possessions of the the departed (often before departure) before filing the paperwork.

And on the frontier and wilderness, which would have the most need for guns, the question would be "What paperwork?". America in the 1700's and 1800's did not have the paperwork of today. Grandpa died? Make a note of it in the family Bible. Things like firearms would have been passed on to the younger generation as soon as the current owner was too old to go hunting with it.

The only people with "probate records" would be the urban wealthy

19 posted on 07/15/2006 7:41:43 AM PDT by SauronOfMordor (A planned society is most appealing to those with the arrogance to think they will be the planners)
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