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Re: Trying to understand
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Wed, 15 Mar 2000 22:07:57 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Mike Stanley writes:
> On Wed, 15 Mar 2000 16:51:11 GMT, "Bruce Schlickbernd"
> <corsair@schlickbernd.org> wrote:
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> > Amendment II
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> > 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.
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> > Rereading this, I'm not quite sure where I agree with your stated purpose of
> > the 2nd amendment. I'm sure that it has that effect, but its purpose was not
> > to act as a safeguard against an out-of-control government. It speaks more • of
> > a lack of a standing army and being a frontier country (at the time) than
> > anything.
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> It may say that to you now, looking back on things from a modern high
> school American history perspective, but it didn't mean just that when
> it was written.
Hmmmm, well, I would have thought that the High School perspective would be
that we needed guns to overthrow existing governments that got out of hand, so
what do I know? :-)
I was actually responding from what I perceive to be their viewpoint at the
time - not a current one. Certainly their wording seems to support that.
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> Think about the people involved in writing the first batch of
> ammendments and what they had lived through.
Are you saying that they didn't mean what they wrote? What you are hinting at
may well have been at the back of their minds, but it would have been easy
enough for them to have said in the amendment if that was what it was about.
Bruce
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| (...) It may say that to you now, looking back on things from a modern high school American history perspective, but it didn't mean just that when it was written. Think about the people involved in writing the first batch of ammendments and what (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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