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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ManyMoose who wrote (262021)	6/8/2002 12:55:41 AM
From: Kevin Rose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Dave, I don't believe you personally are going to run out and buy a tank or a stinger. But, given the logic, which you now concede, some idiot could. That scares the hell out of me. Two more points: 1) Did you know that there was an earlier draft of the 2nd amendment that said the following: "A well regulated militia being composed of the collective body of the people, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed." After much debate, the "being composed of the collective body of the people" was dropped because even back then, the Congress recognized that citizen militias composed of the entire citizen body were outdated and ineffective. 2) A simple English parsing of the language shows that the qualifier "the right of the people to keep and bear arms" applies to the SUBJECT of the sentence "A well regulated militia". Attempts to isolate this clause without regard to the subject are simply examples of poor grammar. Therefore, the right of the people to keep and bear arms is in fact AS PART OF a well regulated militia. I have no problem with arming the National Guard.