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To: ManyMoose who wrote (198770)	3/10/2007 12:30:39 PM
From: D. Long	Respond to of 793911

Are we certain the term State refers to the 50 states? I always thought it referred to the generic state, or the state of being If you look to the debates by the Founders, they were concerned with the federal government having a standing army and trying to disarm the people by degrees, like the British did to the colonists. The Second Amendment was a guarantee of the English common law right to bear arms and of self-defense, and an ultimate guarantee against federal tyranny over the 13 "free States". The Federalists argued that any standing army could at best only be a few tens of thousands, which would be vastly outnumbered by the armed "militia" together with the aid of the State governments.