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Originally Posted by The_Jazz
Good luck with that. Given that the roughly 100 active participants in the politics board can't come up with anything even remotely resembling a consensus, imagine what it would be like when there are powerful folks with a financial stake in the outcome involved in a nation discussion. It would be bedlam - cats and dogs living together, total anarchy!  |
Actually, the 97th congress, US senate did take that up
http://www.constitution.org/mil/rkba1982.htm
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The conclusion is thus inescapable that the history, concept, and wording of the second amendment to the Constitution of the United States, as well as its interpretation by every major commentator and court in the first half century after its ratification, indicates that what is protected is an individual right of a private citizen to own and carry firearms in a peaceful manner.
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