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Originally posted by Sig2340:
And without it? The antis were in the process of regulating all guns out of existence.

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The Second Amendment states, “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 Constitution recognizes the “Militia of the several States”, and the statutes detail what arms “to keep”, when, how and why to “bear” them.

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On the other hand the individual right requires nothing of anyone. It imposes no duty, creates no office, and in practice is nothing more than talk. It does not demand that we sacrifice a few weekends a year, or muster when an emergency strikes the community. All that is needed of the individual right is for the populace to complain when emergency services are overwhelmed, and have not saved us from whatever disaster we might face. It is a tool for what America has become; a nation of ignorant whiners who know nothing of the Founders and the tools they past to us so that we might, just might keep ourselves and our progeny free and prosperous.

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Originally posted by TheShootist:
Over the years I've heard nothing from the pro-2nd community that would make me believe that they understand the inextricable link the Founders created between Militia and rights.
There has been so much propaganda about the ultimate right to keep and bear arms that few see what is going on right around them; CA, NY, CT, IL, MS, MD, CO, NJ, and almost all of the globe have been disarmed. Out of over 7 billion people, how many still have just a partial right to keep and bear arms as defined in law?

MAINSTREAM

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Originally posted by Will938:
If you don't become a screen writer for comedy movies, then you're an asshole.