XPost: can.talk.guns, alt.guns, alt.rec.guns   
   XPost: talk.politics.guns   
   From: oldpink@nltc.net   
      
   the heekster wrote:   
   [...]   
   >>Leif speaking:  The Supreme Court has not incorporated the Second   
   >>Amendment against the states.   
   >   
   >   
   > See 14th Amendment.  BTW, the SC incorporates nothing.  The SC rules   
   > on constitutionality, and they have been known to be wrong.   
      
   The INFALLIBLE Supreme Court?   
   Say it isn't so!   
   Surely not with Dred Scott?   
      
   >>There's no reason why the ever should,   
   >>since the Second Amendment was intended to defend the state militia   
   >>system.   
   >   
   >   
   > The militia antedated the existence of the states.  It isn't a system,   
   > it is an American common law requirement, inherited from English   
   > common law, see fyrd. It's been around a long time.   
      
   You must know by now that Leif, Spaz, and Weasel are from the   
   characteristically liberal school of thought that the Bill of Rights   
   enumerates the rights of the citizens instead of circumscribing the   
   power of the government.   
   [...]   
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