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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (303)	3/13/1999 6:32:00 PM
From: nuke44	Read Replies (2) of 765

A trouble with the scenario of a "temporary" confiscation of weapons from private citizens is that temporary would become permanent. Never in history has a government taken weapons out of the hands of private citizens and then returned them. A corollary to that is to look at every repressive, authoritarian government in the world today. In each and every one without exception, private ownership of firearms is outlawed, often under penalty of death. The first 10 amendments of the Constitution are called the Bill of Rights for a specific reason. When the Constitution was initially drafted, it's opponents, still leery of an omni-powerful central government, stated that they could not support it's ratification unless specific "immunities of the individual to the tyranny of the central government" were guaranteed in writing. Originally the Bill of Rights was to contain 12 amendments, but 2 of those were not ratified. Revisionists who would see the right "to keep and bear arms" annulled, try to tell us that the 2nd amendment does not mean what it says. All we need to know is that the Bill of Rights was written and ratified in order to "guarantee the immunities of the individual to the tyranny of the central government". That says it all.

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