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To: Lane3 who wrote (230363)	12/4/2007 10:39:12 PM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793843

In the first clause, the framers gave one reason why the right should not be abridged. It's not the only one. There are others. For instance so you can protect your other right, the right to life.

To: Lane3 who wrote (230363)	12/4/2007 11:18:23 PM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 793843

The first and second clauses of the Second Amendment have no cause and effect relationship either. You have no interest in this issue, yet you continue to argue for the extermination of a pre-existing right protected in the constitution. I don't follow your motivation.

To: Lane3 who wrote (230363)	12/5/2007 1:21:30 PM
From: goldworldnet	Respond to of 793843

When the first Congress convened in March of 1789, it was James Madison who, on June 8, produced a first draft of the Bill of Rights. Madison's first draft of the Second Amendment read as follows: "The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed; a well armed, and well regulated militia being the best security of a free country: but no person religiously scrupulous of bearing arms, shall be compelled to render military service in person."[88] This version was then altered and shortened by the senators to read as it does today:[89] footnotes: [88] Malcolm, supra note 8, at 159 (citing Madison's version of a Bill of Rights). [89] Professor Malcolm points out that this "streamlining" of the language was due in part to the framer's common understanding of the Amendment's historical and philosophical origins, thus feeling that explanatory phrases were unnecessary. Id. at 161. guncite.com * * *