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To: Lane3 who wrote (94420)1/10/2005 8:48:22 PM
From: TimF   of 793800
 
The founders put language about religion and quartering soldiers in people's homes in the constitution because those were issues at the time. Guns were not an issue. Therefore it makes no sense that they would have come up with a whole amendment to protect our right to own guns any more than they would have done so to protect our right to own hats or shoes or tobacco. Total non-issue. It would be pointless to have an amendment to protect our right to own guns or shoes.

It wasn't a total non-issue. The British had tried at times to disarm people not that many years before the Constitution was ratified. Also historically weapons restrictions where not unusual.

Tim
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