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In reply to the discussion: Some questions for 2A gunnutters and Originalists [View all]brush
(53,771 posts)12. Who's to ask them?
See Chief Justice Berger's 1991 take on the gun lobby's interpretation of the Second Amendment.
Former Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger said it best: The Gun Lobbys interpretation of the Second Amendment is one of the greatest pieces of fraud, I repeat the word fraud, on the American People by special interest groups that I have ever seen in my lifetime. The real purpose of the Second Amendment was to ensure that state armies the militia would be maintained for the defense of the state. The very language of the Second Amendment refutes any argument that it was intended to guarantee every citizen an unfettered right to any kind of weapon he or she desires.
I think I'll go with Chief Justice Berger's opinion. And he was far from a crazy, lefty socialist.
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Yeah, that sawdust was what I added from somebody else - haHAH!1 - plus, a joke thread.
UTUSN
May 2022
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A meaning of well equiped that suggests the need to know who, what, where for when the call-up comes
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May 2022
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