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"I read Britt Towery's column Friday, 'Another look at the 1700s 'right to bear arms,' and was a little surprised to see what he thought. I am not some crazy gun-toting nut. I have spent 31 years in law enforcement."
"The Second Amendment is pretty straightforward. It seems that the last phrasing is what is in question. 'The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed' seems clear to me.
"As for the National Rifle Association, I have been a life member since 1967 and am proud of that fact. The NRA keeps asking for money to fight the anti-gun lobbyists, money to lobby and I guess money to pay for ads also. But it's not much different from most of the other organizations I belong to." ... |
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| Those, who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power to make what revolutions they please. [Thus,] there is no end to observations on the difference between the measures likely to be pursued by a minister backed by a standing army, and those of a court awed by the fear of an armed people. — Aristotle, as quoted by John Trenchard and Water Moyle, An Argument Shewing, That a Standing Army Is Inconsistent with a Free Government, and Absolutely Destructive to the Constitution of the English Monarchy [London, 1697]. |
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