
March 19th, 2008
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Re: Audio Of Oral Arguments, Supreme Court, Second Amendment, 03/18/2008
The main problem these people are not addressing or just skirting is that the Militia of the times, was not state regulated. IT was not state or federal funded, it was Mr every day Farmer. Who was given the right to keep and bear arms so that he could protect himself and his country against the government.
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JUSTICE SCALIA: I don't see how there's any, any, any contradiction between reading the second clause as a -- as a personal guarantee and reading the first one as assuring the existence of a militia, not necessarily a State-managed militia because the militia that resisted the British was not State- managed. But why isn't it perfectly plausible, indeed reasonable, to assume that since the framers knew that the way militias were destroyed by tyrants in the past was not by passing a law against militias, but by taking away the people's weapons -- that was the way militias were destroyed.
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is about as close as it came to the truth.
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