DC Thwarted? Or did John Adams REALLY lose the right to arms?

[jmg257]

Along with MOST other state and federal public officials?


Quote:
Militia Act 1792: "That the Vice-President of the United States, the Officers, judicial and executives, of the government of the United States; the members of both houses of Congress, and their respective officers; all custom house officers, with the clerks; all post officers, and stage-drivers who are employed in the care and conveyance of the mail of the post office of the United States; all Ferrymen employed at any ferry on the post road; all inspectors of exports; all pilots, all mariners actually employed in the sea service of any citizen or merchant within the United States; and all persons who now are or may be hereafter exempted by the laws of the respective states, shall be and are hereby exempted from militia duty,"

Quote:
Virgina Militia Act 1785: "That all free male persons between the ages of eighteen and fifty years, except the members of the council of state, members of the American congress, judges of the superior courts, speakers of the two houses of assembly, treasurer, attorney-general, auditors and their clerks, solicitor-general and his clerks, clerks of the council of state, and treasury, register of the land-office, his deputy and clerks, custom-house officers, all inspectors of tobacco, all professors, and tutors at the University of William and Mary, and other public seminaries of learning, all ministers of the Gospel, licensed to preach according- to the rules of their sect, who shall have previously taken before the court of their county, an oath of fidelity to the commonwealth, post-masters, keepers of the public gaol and public hospital, millers, persons concerned at iron or lead works, or persons solely employed in repairing or manufacturing fire-arms, all of whom are exempted from the obligations of this act, shall be inrolled {in the Militia}"

DC Brief:
Quote:
"Instead, {the 2nd amendment} protects the possession and use of guns only in service of an organized militia."


So ALL these people lost the right to keep and bear arms the moment they took office??? Hmmmm...did they have to sell their arms at that time, and buy new ones once they left office and were eligible for Militia duty again?

YOU WOULD LOSE THE RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS to become a public official?? Seems an awful lot to ask to give up a basic right in order to serve your country as a civil servant. All the sons of liberty who fought the revolution to throw off an oppressive govt did so just so they could lose THEIR rights, and deny that right to other civil servants, when they served the new republic outside the militia? And they did this intentionally via the 2nd???

DC - What a crock!

[jody]

1. Interesting twist on RKBA. n/t

[SteveM]

2. Good one! But officials will take the Feinstein approach: hire body guards.