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The truth about 2nd Amendmt, Part 2: Mitilia history as founders knew it
Constitution.org ^ | 6/10/02 | Wolfstar

Posted on 06/10/2002 8:14:11 AM PDT by Wolfstar

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To: Wolfstar
Actually, it matters a great deal. The more people discover the truth about why the founders bequeathed us the rights they did in the Constitution, the better off we will all be. It is critical to argue from strength when supporting something against which powerful forces are arrayed, such as the right to keep and bear arms. Strength comes from confidence, which comes from knowledge — from knowing one is on the right side of the argument and of history.

Amen!

If we do not want to face the agonizing option of having to go through it all again, we need to rally every intelligent person to the truth--not in the distant future, but here and now. The public is desperately out of touch with the American roots--completely ignorant of values which to the Founding Fathers were second nature. And this issue goes to the ultimate question or just who it is, who has primary responsibility for the American future--if we are to have one. (See The Right & Duty To Keep & Bear Arms.)

It is tragic that the Left has so fragmented the public perception of contemporary issues, that almost no one even sees the clear analogy between the dynamic psychological force which makes the Market Economy work, and the same psychology as reflected in the Founding Father's hope for an America of well armed and responsible households. If we could but get more to see that analogy, we would be a long way home towards bringing Americans with intelligence back to the rest of their now beleaguered heritage. It all flows out of a life view that was and is totally rational, and far and away the most effective vehicle for positive social progress, the world has ever known.

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21 posted on 06/10/2002 12:00:58 PM PDT by Ohioan
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To: MosesKnows
"...I resent the fact that some feel that a right need be justified in order to be a right."

Here, Here!

It is annoying to no end that otherwise intelligent people just can't (or won't) understand that the Bill of Rights does not make law, but is a statement of that, which the government is denied tampering with because these rights existed BEFORE government.

22 posted on 06/10/2002 12:03:06 PM PDT by elbucko
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To: itsahoot
Yes — could have settled it in the wrong direction. Personally, I believe it is a settled issue and has been since the founding of our Republic. It is the modern Left who would have us believe otherwise.
23 posted on 06/10/2002 12:22:01 PM PDT by Wolfstar
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To: Ohioan
Well-said, Ohioan. By the way, the Hispanic-turned-radical-Islamist dude who was planning the dirty nuke attack was arrested at O'Hare, in your general part of the country. Thank goodness we have hard-working law enforcement officers to apprehend such people. But, in our modern and increasingly dangerous world, the last line of defense for the country is the people themselves. So thank God for giving the founders the wisdom to enshrine our right to keep and bear arms in the Constitution. As a people, at least we are not entirely helpless if it comes to having to defend ourselves from these wackos.
24 posted on 06/10/2002 12:29:35 PM PDT by Wolfstar
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To: WFTR
self-ping
25 posted on 06/10/2002 6:37:37 PM PDT by WFTR
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To: WFTR
bump
26 posted on 06/18/2002 12:40:57 PM PDT by Maelstrom
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To: Wolfstar
bump for later. Good article
27 posted on 06/18/2002 12:42:59 PM PDT by billbears
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28 posted on 06/18/2002 12:48:07 PM PDT by niki
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