[geeks] FW: [rescue] UPS Recommendation

[nick at snowman.net]

Ahh but if you organize militia meetings about now you get FBI & ATF
agents trying to ruin your life.  Makes things more intresting does it
not?
	Nick

On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:

> N.Miller wrote:
> 
> > The Federalist Papers (generally thought of as a clarification
> > of the thoughts of the framers of the Constitution) talk about
> > Amendment 2 quite extensively, as it was one of the big bones of
> > contention as the regards the Constitution.  Refer to 4, 29, 46.
> > Of course, the Anti-Federalist Papers also discuss Amendment 2
> > as well.
> > 
> > It's really too bad that the American public is not so well-educated
> > as it was at the time the Constitution was being put together.
> 
> I was just getting ready to say, that you cannot read the second 
> amendment or any part of the Consitution alone.  You have to read the 
> papers that back it up, and the Federalist Papers as well.  It also 
> helps to read the letters and other writing of the founders.
> 
> It's quite clear that the intention was that all citizens had the right 
> to be armed.  Not only that, they had the duty to be armed, but 
> obviously many people don't have enough sense of duty to even bother 
> reading.
> 
> Even if it were stricly for militia use, there would be little 
> difference, except maybe we'd organize militia meetings now and then.
> Effectively, we have to be armed for self-defense in order to be armed 
> for the militia.  If you are not armed, then it will be a little hard to 
> organize the militia when it is called up... :)
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