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[Sandwich Maker]

"From: Mike Meredith <mike at blackhairy.demon.co.uk>
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"The 2nd amendment ? You know that looks like a spectacularly dumb one
"... because it's so vague and unspecific. "A well regulated militia,
"being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people
"to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed."
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"My understanding of that is that the people are allowed to keep and bear
"arms *specifically* so they can be raised as a militia to defend the
"state (which state? A US state ? Or the Federal state?). There's no
"indication that arms are permitted for self-protection, or for
"individual protection against the state.
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"Of course there's nothing to say that arms can't be used for
"self-protection either, but the whole statement implies that it is
"specifically for military purposes. Banding together with your
"neighbours for self-protection doesn't make you a member of a militia
"either.
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and it has been argued that the 'militia' they're talking about is
now called the national guard, not any random ad hoc assembly of gun
toting citizens.  in this context, the right to keep and bear arms
would be so that the state wouldn't have to supply them, but now it
does...
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