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Zadoc

(195 posts) Mon Jan 14, 2013, 02:00 AM Jan 2013

There Was Never an Intent For an Individual Right to Firearms [View all]

There Was Never an Intent For an Individual Right to Firearms

he Second Amendment is one of the most controversial amendments in the Constitution, if not the most controversial. It wasn’t always so, it has only been in the last several years that the meaning of the amendment was changed by the courts to grant citizens a broad right to firearms. However, this is not what the founders had in mind. So, what were they thinking?

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There Was Never an Intent For an Individual Right to Firearms [View all] Zadoc Jan 2013 OP

No, it was an intent that independent state militias Warpy Jan 2013 #1

K&R Very interesting. JDPriestly Jan 2013 #2

Since the D party, the R party, the SCOTUS and the President think otherwise... cthulu2016 Jan 2013 #3

Yes that is true however, humbled_opinion Jan 2013 #4

Well then that settles it! cbrer Jan 2013 #5

"Suppressing insurrection"? Many of today's gunners think it is to support insurrection. Scuba Jan 2013 #6

you got it. safeinOhio Jan 2013 #7

+1 HuckleB Jan 2013 #8