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To: willcousa who wrote (62023)10/16/2002 10:35:53 AM
From: GVTucker  Read Replies (1) of 77400
 
willcousa, RE: It may be unclear to you what the constitution allows in regard to the right to bear arms but it was never unclear to the founding fathers - simply witness the common practice of the day.

I would disagree strongly. Yes, some politically motivated researcher fabricated some data to make a flawed point, but that has nothing to do with the wording of the second amendment.

I think that most likely interpretation is that the founding fathers made the second amendment intentionally vague, so that potential interpretations could change with the times.

I find it hard to believe that anyone reading the second amendment wouldn't have to read it several times just to have any idea what it says. If the founding fathers truly wanted to give us all the right to keep and own guns no matter what the scenario, it would have been very easy to say, "The right of citizens to bear arms shall not be infringed." That would eliminate a lot of the debate. But they didn't say that.
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