RE: Firearms
April 2, 2013 at 5:13 pm
(This post was last modified: April 2, 2013 at 5:20 pm by CleanShavenJesus.)
(April 2, 2013 at 3:23 am)Tiberius Wrote: Plus, nobody is pointing to the original and claiming to have a right to something. The right to bear arms is in the current constitution as well (and ironically, was not in the original). The right to bear arms was an amendment in the first place.
I'd rather not get into the current argument, but I would like to point out that it's part of the Bill of Rights, which weren't really amendments to correct anything from the Constitution, but more just to put certain politicans (and the people) at ease. Many of the amendments in the Bill of Rights were already freedoms felt by the American people, but politicians like Jefferson, for example, demanded that the Bill of Rights be made just to protect our liberties in any potential future attack on them.
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