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To: Lane3 who wrote (94324)	1/9/2005 7:16:00 AM
From: haqihana	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793759

kholt, The second amendment gives me the right to bear arms as a member of a militia. Militias are composed of ordinary citizens who band together to defend both public, and personal, property, or rights. They are not official armies. The militias of the age when the constitution was drafted, owned their own weapons, and were not supplied by any government body. Only standing armies, and navies, received weapons from the colonial government when the revolution started. Those that fought at Concord, and Lexington, were using their own, personal weapons. Being an individual of the USA, and prepared to defend my country to the fullest extent that I am able to perform, grants me the right to own, and bear, arms in the pursuit of that activity. Why we must never lose the right to bear arms, as citizens, is because the first tenet of socialism is to confiscate all of the weapons from the citizenry to prevent an uprising when the citizens realize that socialism deprives them of all their rights, both legal, and civil.