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In reply to the discussion: Some questions for 2A gunnutters and Originalists [View all]SYFROYH
(34,169 posts)13. There are a lot of powerful people often with their own security
(even on the conservative right) who dont want the people to keep and bear arms.
Its a bizarre thing to think, at least to me, that the Bill of Rights in every other enumerated case protects the people from government overreach but the second merely protects the state.
We know Burger was out of line when he creates the red herring of a guarantee every citizen an unfettered right to any kind of weapon he or she desires..
By the time he made his utterance there were noncontroversial Federal guns on the books.
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Yeah, that sawdust was what I added from somebody else - haHAH!1 - plus, a joke thread.
UTUSN
May 2022
#6
A meaning of well equiped that suggests the need to know who, what, where for when the call-up comes
sanatanadharma
May 2022
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