Nicely said throughout your thread. Scalia schooled Stevens in the Heller opinion. English common law is the underpinning of the whole thing: the rights of free men.
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Good quote. Goes to show that what 2A really says is "government can't pass laws that infringe on right to own guns, AND they also can't stop people from forming militias".
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Yes the founding fathers would have prefered an inferior less accurate rifle to fight the British empire.
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That's why they banned the Kentucky, Virginia and Pennsylvania long rifles from use in the militia.
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People too far to the right ignore the first part, people too far to the left ignore the second. Essentially almost no one
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You want to talk about it then?
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After this past week I’m a little exhausted with the subject but yeah, I mean I guess I’ve got some time.
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Well I'm always willing to listen to opposite opinions.
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Well, as integral as hunting and subsistence living are for many, those arguments don’t have much wash in the constitutional conversation. Hunting and trapping were so ubiquitous in the 1780s as to not be given thought. However, the founders did have two absolute concerns:
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1. Security vs. Tyranny from without. Which was bared out 30 years later in 1812. 2. Security from Tyranny from within. Remember most of the founders save Jefferson and Franklin hadn’t just created a government, they’d just made war to throw one off.
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So when someone tells you the second amendment covers the .30-.30 but not the Bushmaster, you remind them the Chinese army has over a million armed personnel. Remind them we haven’t been invaded in over 200 years. Remind them no commander in chief ever became generalissimo.
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And that all of those things came about because there’s a curtain of 700,000,000 guns separating 350,000,000 people who are willing to fight for their liberty from those who would take it.
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