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In reply to the discussion: How is Meatloaf's 'Id Do Anything for Love' like the 2nd Amendment? [View all]sarisataka
(21,003 posts)34. "probably"
'nuff said
How many writings can the pro gun crowd come up with which clearly contend an individual rkba was intended?
"I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people, except for a few public officials."
--George Mason {note he does not say 'those enrolled'...}
"The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed."
-- Alexander Hamilton
"That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms ... "
-- Samuel Adams
"{The Constitution preserves} the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation...(where) the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms."
--James Madison
"To suppose arms in the hands of citizens, to be used at individual discretion, except in private self-defense, or by partial orders of towns, countries or districts of a state, is to demolish every constitution, and lay the laws prostrate, so that liberty can be enjoyed by no man; it is a dissolution of the government. The fundamental law of the militia is, that it be created, directed and commanded by the laws, and ever for the support of the laws."
--John Adams {individuals have the right to use arms in self-defense}
"Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? Where is the difference between having our arms in possession and under our direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?"
-- Patrick Henry
"Whereas, to preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them; nor does it follow from this, that all promiscuously must go into actual service on every occasion. The mind that aims at a select militia, must be influenced by a truly anti-republican principle; and when we see many men disposed to practice upon it, whenever they can prevail, no wonder true republicans are for carefully guarding against it."
--Richard Henry Lee
"The people are not to be disarmed of their weapons. They are left in full possession of them."
-- Zachariah Johnson
" ... to disarm the people - that was the best and most effectual way to enslave them."
-- George Mason
I haven't seen any valid ones yet.
These are only the people who wrote and voted on the Constitution and Bill of Rights...
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The Democratic party says the 2A supports an individual right to keep and bear arms.
hack89
Jan 2017
#2
Might have saved yourself the effort. It's settled law now, at least for the foreseeable future.
Marengo
Jan 2017
#19