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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (533309)	11/29/2009 10:43:18 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1585088

"Not as long as that militia phrase is in there.....it was put there for a purpose.." True. If you read the "Federalist Papers", the FFs had the idea that the only standing military they needed was the officer corps and maybe a few soldiers. They wanted to be able to tap the militias on an as-needed basis. The problem is, that didn't work out too well. The militias didn't take orders well and tended to vanish when they were needed. After several tries, they quietly dropped the idea. But that still doesn't change the fact that gun ownership is written into the Constitution. Even though one of the major reasons for it didn't work out.