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RC

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4. When in the hell are we going to enforce BOTH parts of the 2nd Amendment?

Reply to onehandle (Original post)

Thu Jan 16, 2014, 09:43 AM

Jan 2014

If the belonging to a Militia part isn't necessary to the security of a free state and therefore doesn't apply anymore, than doesn't that weaken the "right of the people..." part?

Article II

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

The first part, that keeps getting ignored, modifies the second part about our Right to keep and to have those arms in the first place.

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When in the hell are we going to enforce BOTH parts of the 2nd Amendment? RC Jan 2014 #4

case law does not Niceguy1 Jan 2014 #5

Because the pro-death industry has spent several decades & billions of dollars to ensure it doesn't. baldguy Jan 2014 #6

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Try 11,400 deaths cause by guns in 2013 alone RC Jan 2014 #21

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Prof. Fox Phd writing in this months Journal Homicide disputes that One_Life_To_Give Jan 2014 #41

Like holstering, or carrying a rifle in a case, or shooting at a target on a range? carla Jan 2014 #18

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So what? It is well past time that BOTH parts of the 2nd Amendment were looked at together. RC Jan 2014 #10

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