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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (691157)	1/3/2013 5:39:23 PM
From: Bill	Respond to of 1577890

Of course not. It affirms it and protects it. The right of an individual to keep and bear arms existed long before the 2nd amendment came along to protect it.

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (691157)	1/3/2013 5:53:00 PM
From: longnshort	3 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1577890

“What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.” – Thomas Jefferson to William Stephens Smith, 1787. ME 6:373, Papers 12:356 “No Free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.” – Thomas Jefferson, Proposal Virginia Constitution, 1 T. Jefferson Papers, 334,[C.J. Boyd, Ed., 1950] “The right of the people to keep and bear … arms shall not be infringed. A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the best and most natural defense of a free country …” – James Madison, I Annals of Congress 434, June 8, 1789