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Originally Posted by dksuddeth
Not since the Kelo v. New London decision has a constitutional amendment been so hotly debated.
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Not since... last year? Ok...
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Originally Posted by dksuddeth
My opinion is that this amendment affords ALL citizens the right to keep and bear arms. This is proven by many points as listed below.
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That's a pretty hard pill to swallow. Remember that many released criminals are citizens, as are the insane and children. There seems to be ample reason to deprive certain citizens of deadly weapons.
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The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. ~John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
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