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Thread #143962   Message #3326512
Posted By: Don(Wyziwyg)T
21-Mar-12 - 03:01 PM
Thread Name: BS: Guns & laws in the US
Subject: RE: BS: Guns & laws in the US
""Anyway, "the right of the people...shall not be infringed" seems pretty unambiguous.""

There you go again, leaving out the limiting phrase about "Tyranny in Government", later repeated as follows: ""The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."
       -- Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Jefferson Papers, vol. 1, p.334
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