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To: VRWCmember
It doesn't say "The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed except by the states.

The Supreme Court rejected that facile argument centuries ago.

"Had the framers of these amendments intended them to be limitations on the powers of the State governments, they would have imitated the framers of the original Constitution, and have expressed that intention. Had Congress engaged in the extraordinary occupation of improving the Constitutions of the several States by affording the people additional protection from the exercise of power by their own governments in matters which concerned themselves alone, they would have declared this purpose in plain and intelligible language."

64 posted on 06/04/2009 7:01:03 AM PDT by Mojave (Don't blame me. I voted for McClintock.)
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To: Mojave
Had the framers of these amendments intended them to be limitations on the powers of the State governments, they would have imitated the framers of the original Constitution, and have expressed that intention.

And they did, when they included the phrase "the right of the people to keep and bear arms" in the 2nd. It's not a right of the people if the States can take it away. If you think the States can take away a "right of the people", please explain your legal justification for it.

386 posted on 06/04/2009 3:16:15 PM PDT by savedbygrace (You are only leading if someone follows. Otherwise, you just wandered off... [Smokin' Joe])
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