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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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PHORTO
(9/1/2015)
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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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Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? Where is the difference between having our arms in possession and under our direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands? — Patrick Henry, 3 J. Elliot, Debates in the Several State Conventions 45, 2d ed. Philadelphia, 1836 |
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