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Originally Posted by smooth
I don't know why you keep referencing the "founders" or "framers" intent.
First of all, our constitution was made through a lengthy process of collaberation and compromise. There was no fundamental agreement among everyone on what was ultimately penned. It simply doesn't make any sense to quote the thoughts or musings of one or three drafters and call it good or representative of what the ratifying body believed in.
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I keep referencing the founders and framers because MOST of them, not just one or three, debated and understood the natural right of a person to own and carry their own arms for defending the state as well as themselves and their family.
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