Ashcroft had angered pro gun-control elements earlier this year when - in a letter to the NRA - he reasserted his belief
that the Constitution guarantees people the right to own guns.
The Clinton administration Justice Department took the view that the Founding Fathers mostly intended that states
have the right to keep and bear arms for their own protection.
Yes, I got my letter from Ashcroft and felt much relieved. The Clinton administration and general democratic thought is the same as from the Dred Scott era, discriminatory.
Finally, in the infamous Dred Scott decision, the U.S. Supreme Court showed that it shared this understanding that citizenship
excluded blacks and explained the relationship between citizenship and the carrying of arms:
*20* It would give to persons of the negro race, who were recognized as citizens in any one State of the Union,
the right to enter every other State whenever they pleased, singly or in companies, without pass or passport, and
without obstruction, to sojourn there as long as they pleased, to go where they pleased at every hour of the day or
night without molestation, unless they committed some violation of law for which a white man would be punished;
and it would give them the full liberty of speech in public and in private upon all subjects upon which its own
citizens might speak; to hold public meetings upon political affairs, and to keep and carry arms wherever they
went. And all of this would be done in the face of the subject race of the same color, both free and slaves,
inevitably producing discontent and insubordination among them, and endangering the peace and safety of the
State.(39)
Wonder what "keep and bear arms whevever they went" means? |
