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To: Kevin Rose who wrote (133089)	3/23/2001 1:01:10 PM
From: Zoltan!	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

>>What I do NOT support is the insane policy of allowing nearly free access to handguns whose only intent is to kill other human beings. What a bizarre statement. Inanimate objects with intent? Handguns are human beings? CA is WEIRD. As for the rest, you appear to hang around with bloodthirsty killers. Everyone I know who has a gun has one for the purpose of deterring criminals or self-protection, not so they can wantonly kill people.

To: Kevin Rose who wrote (133089)	3/23/2001 2:21:57 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Have you read the 2nd amendment? In case not, here it is: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed". Clearly, the intent of this is to protect the citizens right to raise and keep a Militia. Militias at the time were necessary to stop the threat of foreign invasion. Clearly the first clause makes no statement that allows or forbids anything or directly modifies the second clause. It acts a rhetorical support for the second clause. The second, or active clause is simple. "The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." Note the right of the people, not the right of the militia or any state body. Even the militias of the time where not like today's national guard but where people who used there own guns when called out. Tim