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MD: Second Amendment (third letter)
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Bruce W. Krafft
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"Godfrey R. Gauld (The Capital, Aug. 25) makes a strong case for arms as a natural right and as the 'foundation upon which all other rights are based.' And the extent to which our elected representatives flail away at this fundamental right should alarm us."
"From this argument one draws the conclusion that each of the Earth's other free nations would have its own equivalent of our Second Amendment. And if they do not, then their citizens are, somehow, less 'free' than ours." ... |
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Dear Arnold:
You are thinking it to death. This nation was founded upon the precept that all humans are endowed by their Creator with fundamental, unalienable rights.
Unalienable. Rights.
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| Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate governments, to which the people are attached, and by which the militia officers are appointed, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition, more insurmountable than any which a simple government of any form can admit of. Notwithstanding the military establishments in the several kingdoms of Europe, which are carried as far as the public resources will bear, the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms. — James Madison, The Federalist Papers, No. 46 |
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