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

To: ManyMoose who wrote (326546)	12/7/2002 3:38:16 PM
From: J_F_Shepard	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

" The second amendment says: the right of the PEOPLE to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. It does NOT say the right of the militia to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. What it does say about a well organized militia is that it is necessary to the security of a free state. " If the framers meant that an individual should have the right to keep and bear arms, this simple statement would have sufficed and been clear and unambiguous. The word "people" is plural and if they didn't mean the militia by it, they didn't have to use the term. The could have merely said,"The right of the individual(or person) to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." Why did they include the rest of the the statement??? And why the careful description of a militia, ie well organized...? Certainly an individual with a pop gun under his bed is not a well organized militia... And when they talked about a free state they didn't mean Michigan or Virginia as states in the US...they were using the formal term for countries....