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To: JohnRLott

I’ve got a question or two that I have never heard anyone
pose. Just what organization or individual argued
in favor of gun control during the development of
the US Constitution? Or, on what basis did the
founding fathers decide that weapons should only
be in the hands of militia members? What was the
nature of the gun control lobby?

In fact, a few of us are well aware that in
Federalist 46 James “Father of the Constitution”
Madison boasts that unlike Europeans, the Americans
own their own weapons. What is so hard to under-
stand about it?


19 posted on 06/30/2010 8:40:31 AM PDT by Sivad (NorCal Red Turf)
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To: Sivad
-- on what basis did the founding fathers decide that weapons should only be in the hands of militia members? --

Heh .. that's not what they decided, but there's another point. If you are able-bodied, if you can fire a weapon, then you are in the militia! The militia is ALL able bodied, regardless of whether or not they have organized and trained in military arts, or even if they have a firearm. If you are able to shoot, you are in the militia.

Registered for the draft? Militia.

The federal courts are completely corrupt on the second amendment. All one has to do to reach that conclusion is read and understand Presser and Miller, then read any modern case. Absolute and total disconnect.

37 posted on 06/30/2010 9:24:32 AM PDT by Cboldt
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