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   Message 52,835 of 54,497   
   wy to All   
   Re: Time for Mississippi to elect a new    
   14 Apr 13 08:39:38   
   
   b8e13969   
   XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics.usa.constitution.gun-rights,   
   talk.politics.guns   
   From: wy_@myself.com   
      
   On 14 Apr, 11:09, Klaus Schadenfreude    
   wrote:   
   > On Sun, 14 Apr 2013 08:02:39 -0700 (PDT), wy  wrote:   
   > >On 14 Apr, 10:29, Klaus Schadenfreude    
   > >wrote:   
   > >> On Sun, 14 Apr 2013 07:27:20 -0700 (PDT), wy  wrote:   
   > >> >If it was only about people having the right, there would be no need   
   > >> >to mention militia. Boy, you're stupid.   
   >   
   > >> People make up the militia. Boy you're stupid.   
   >   
   > >Then there's no need to mention militia if the people would already   
   > >have the right to bear arms.   
   >   
   > TRANSLATION: There's no need to mention militia that wy could possibly   
   > understand.   
      
   Translation: Klaus is too stupid to explain what that could possibly   
   be.   
      
      
   >   
   > >The right would already exist for them   
   > >to be able to form a militia.  The right would apply to both personal   
   > >and militia use.   
   >   
   > ALL the rights "already existed."   
      
   Not constitutionally.   
      
      
   >   
   > > If it was only about people, the amendment could've   
   > >simply read: The right of the people to keep and bear arms.  Period.   
   > >No mention of militia necessary.  But militia being used is the   
   > >qualifier as to what circumstances they have that right.   
   >   
   > Wrong.   
      
   And look at Klaus being impotent at explaining why.   
      
      
   >   
   > > The reason   
   > >why militia was mentioned was because the US had a pretty piss-poor   
   > >army back then to cover all the territories, so essentially the   
   > >amendment "deputized" militias as a quasi-army, and of course for   
   > >that, people needed to be given a right to bear arms in order to serve   
   > >the functions of a militia to defend a free state in those places   
   > >where the army was too undermanned to do so itself.  Read your history.   
   >   
   > That's funny. Obviously you haven't read any history.   
      
   What? Nothing to back up your version of history?  Yeah, I thought so.   
      
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