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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Or maybe the problem is that when any gun control proposal is brought up people immediately jump to arguing that it bans or will lead in short order to a ban on every possible form of gun ownership, including antique guns with bayonet mounting. [/quote]

Well, how can you blame people for thinking that way? Especially when you remember what Pete Shields, the founder of what later became the Brady group, said:
[b]"No private citizen has any legitimate reason to possess any type of firearm whatsoever."[/b][/quote]

Absolutely, positively 100% correct.

The second amendment granted "the militia" the right to possess arms. Not you. Not me. The militia. In other words, the military. Or the national guard. Or the police. It is not an individual right for each person in the way that speech, religion, self incrimination, etc are. It's a right established and reserved for the collective (ie the militia, the government, the state), but it just happened to be included amongst other rights prescribed to individuals. That's the source of confusion here. The other nine amendments in the BoR are for the individual, except for the second amendment, which is for the militia.

It's a mistake, among many, made by the white male slave owners who wrote it. [/quote]

As others have told you before, you are not a constitutional scholar and fall on the wrong side of history. Further, the amendment explicitly said, "the right of the people" not the militia.

The white male slave owners also freed the slaves? I don't understand your slavery argument. But you aren't really rational anyway.[/quote]

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