Re: OT This Ain't Good

"Max" <thesameoldme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> And if I don't believe there is a supreme being who might, or might
> not, have given me any such "right"?

That's why I added the qualifier, "or your birth as a human
being." The right are inherent, not bestowed. Your right to free speech, to
be secure in your person, to not give testemony against yourself, all of
them are there at birth. It's not real hard to understand.


> The chief function of government is to provide security (common
> defense). In the absence of a government that is capable of providing
> security, the nature of man is, "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and
> short". (Thomas Hobbes).
> In the absence of a government that can provide security, the need for
> "arms" becomes obvious but I suggest it is a *need* and not a right.
> Again, I don't know what the exact interpretation of the amendment
> should be, and I recognize that there are differing opinions from
> mine. But an opinion does not make it a fact.

Then can you justify what seems to be your belief that the framers did not
really know what they meant when they used the words "the people" in the
documents.

http://www.usdoj.gov/olc/secondamendment2.htm

http://www.potowmack.org/1197row.html

Lots more out there, but the SCOTUS disagrees with those who want to
restrict the right to bear arms to a "militia". BTW, I didn't post the
SCOTUS opinion, but it's there.

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