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To: elbucko
Can you provide a refernce for this position.
9 posted on 03/05/2003 11:40:44 AM PST by Jack Black
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To: Jack Black
Can you provide a reference for this position.

Yes I can:

http://archive.aclu.org/library/aaguns.html

(cut and paste into browser)

Also, do a "Google" with the following query: ACLU and Second Amendment.

The position of the ACLU is that the 2nd Amendment is a "collective right ", which is essentially an oxymoron. If voting is a "collective right", it is also most certainly, an "individual right". I don't think a right can exist collectively and NOT be an individual right in actual consequence.

The only limitations I can find in the Constitution that apply in a collective sense, but still wind up as being individual, in the actual sense, are the age limits on Representatives (25), Senators (30) and the President (35).

If the only Constitutional limits to holding office are age (maturity), than that criteria may be the only Constitutional impediment to to owning a firearm.

12 posted on 03/05/2003 3:54:44 PM PST by elbucko (Blued Steel & Finished Walnut)
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