Re: No Amendment is Absolute.
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I think they are taking small steps at first to gauge the response from the people. If nothing happens or it quickly blows over more will come. Garryowen I agree. It seems to me Biden made a pretty tepid step with what he suggested. A trial balloon. The left is taking very calculated steps to insure we have no means to stop their advance. We're spectators to our own country's suicide.
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Re: No Amendment is Absolute.
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Think about that for a moment. That right there would break the camels back...... Both sides of the aisle should be up in arms over that statement. The courts should be up in arms over that statement. Heck, every American should be up in arms over that statement!! One word comes to mind, how many died on the field for our FREEDOM......... You're not wrong.
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." -Edmund Burke "We are fast approaching... rule by brute force." -Ayn Rand
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Re: No Amendment is Absolute.
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I think they are taking small steps at first to gauge the response from the people. If nothing happens or it quickly blows over more will come. Garryowen I agree. It seems to me Biden made a pretty tepid step with what he suggested. A trial balloon. The left is taking very calculated steps to insure we have no means to stop their advance. We're spectators to our own country's suicide. I disagree.
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Re: No Amendment is Absolute.
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I think they are taking small steps at first to gauge the response from the people. If nothing happens or it quickly blows over more will come.
They have to pack the US Supreme Court first. After that anything can happen.
Garryowen Made this exact point to my brother yesterday. What we are seeing are test runs.....by our government, the chinese, the russians. All to gage our level of tolerance and compliance and to see the economic and social impact of each new run.
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Re: No Amendment is Absolute.
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They understand and fear the following and is the main reason they want to take away gun rights. I have seen a civil war and it's something we want to avoid at all cost. There is nothing China would like more. I am sure they have a hand in this division. This country is going to come to blows, there's no way around it. A house divided against itself cannot stand. Then let's get on with it. I don't want to leave the problem to my kids.
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Re: No Amendment is Absolute.
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"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."
So the amendment is not saying a state is required to, or has a right to, keep a well regulated militia. It's saying that because a well regulated militia (army) is necessary to keep a free state secure, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
So the whole point of the amendment is to say the people have a right to keep and bear arms.
The word "regulated" is not meant technically in the modern, contemporary use of the word. Regulated in the context of the amendment means a potent, well-maintained, sufficiently powerful to protect the state.
I've often thought the Founders believed that citizens should be able to carry the same arms as their military counterparts. By their use of regulated, I wonder if the Founders believed that training should be involved with such military type firearms?
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Re: No Amendment is Absolute.
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Technically, Biden's right: the Bill of Rights generally isn't absolute. This is true of the First Amendment--you can't shout "fire!" in a crowded theatre.
And it's just as true of the Second. You don't have the right to all the weapons of our modern military without regulation.
As for the fantasy that a bunch of keyboard warriors will really take up arms, I won't be joining in.
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Re: No Amendment is Absolute.
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Technically, Biden's right: the Bill of Rights generally isn't absolute. This is true of the First Amendment--you can't shout "fire!" in a crowded theatre.
And it's just as true of the Second. You don't have the right to all the weapons of our modern military without regulation.
As for the fantasy that a bunch of keyboard warriors will really take up arms, I won't be joining in.
Jim I respectfully find your points very weak in substance in light of the agenda that is being brought forward presently
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Re: No Amendment is Absolute.
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Technically, Biden's right: the Bill of Rights generally isn't absolute. This is true of the First Amendment--you can't shout "fire!" in a crowded theatre.
And it's just as true of the Second. You don't have the right to all the weapons of our modern military without regulation.
As for the fantasy that a bunch of keyboard warriors will really take up arms, I won't be joining in.
Jim True colors! You do have the right to those arms, It just has been suspended by the NFA.
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Re: No Amendment is Absolute.
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The NFA was enacted decades ago, and no one's taken up arms yet.
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Re: No Amendment is Absolute.
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The NFA was enacted decades ago, and no one's taken up arms yet.
Jim I tend to agree to a point. The most often quoted phrase is " shall not be infringed ". Another phrase not mentioned, or a single word I should say is " regulated". This has always confused me when reading the entire second. "A well regulated militia". What did they mean by regulated??
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Re: No Amendment is Absolute.
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Don't know what he said, but the snowflake's back. Does he seem sober this time?
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Re: No Amendment is Absolute.
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The NFA was enacted decades ago, and no one's taken up arms yet.
Jim I tend to agree to a point. The most often quoted phrase is " shall not be infringed ". Another phrase not mentioned, or a single word I should say is " regulated". This has always confused me when reading the entire second. "A well regulated militia". What did they mean by regulated?? Aha! You'e hit on why those are wrong who say the Second Amendment is absolute and unequivocal. The Second Amendment wasn't handed down by God on a stone tablet. Its language is a compromise, a deal hammered out in back rooms between those who wanted the individual right to bear arms versus those who feared the Mob of common folk being armed. It was sausage being made. Jim
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Re: No Amendment is Absolute.
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No President is Absolute.
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Re: No Amendment is Absolute.
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James I would be pleased to hear you explain the meaning, intent and purpose of the 2nd amendment particular the right of a well regulated militia based on the Founders purpose for it. It seems to me the purpose for its existence is being full realized before our eyes.Their foresight only seems to strength the need and importance of it in today's political atmosphere. Yes sir, you're asking for a long lecture, a real dissertation. Why don't you ask a specific question, and we'll run it up the flagpole and talk about it. Jim
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Re: No Amendment is Absolute.
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Technically, Biden's right: the Bill of Rights generally isn't absolute. This is true of the First Amendment--you can't shout "fire!" in a crowded theatre.
And it's just as true of the Second. You don't have the right to all the weapons of our modern military without regulation.
As for the fantasy that a bunch of keyboard warriors will really take up arms, I won't be joining in.
Jim Actually, you CAN shout fire in a crowded theater.................if there is a fire. Holmes' statement......which was not a legal ruling but an analogy.......is almost ALWAYS misquoted. He actually referred to.................... "falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic"...."
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