[Magdalen] right to bear arms

[Sibyl Smirl]

On 12/10/15 10:07 PM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford wrote:
> Just read a wonderful thought.
>
> Back when they wrote the Constitution,
> the Founding Fathers said you could own a gun.
> They also said you could own people.
>
> Dang. Why didn't *I* think of that?

Our brother Louie put around a photo with that quote on Facebook 
yesterday (In very poor grammar (Ebonics?  the photo was of a young 
Black man of whom I've never heard otherwise, but then I'm not up on a 
lot of "pop culture": I find it hard to believe that an English teacher 
sent that around).

Anyway, the big hole in the quote is that there isn't _anything_ in the 
Constitution or the Bill of Rights (which is part of the Constitution) 
about a Right to own people.  Whoever said it first ("Michael Che?" 
IIRC) knew as little about the Constitution as he did about grammar.


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Sibyl Smirl
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