[Magdalen] right to bear arms

[Lynn Ronkainen]

the whole second amendment thing was stirred up back in the '80s or '90s 
making it larger than life, or the probable intentions of the founding 
fathers... lobbied and paid for by munitions makers - big surprise, eh?
Lynn

website: www.ichthysdesigns.com

When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I have not a 
single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything You gave me." 
attributed to Erma Bombeck
 "Either Freedom for all or stop talking about Freedom at all" from a talk 
by Richard Rohr

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From: "M J _Mike_ Logsdon" <mjl at ix.netcom.com>
Sent: Friday, December 11, 2015 5:07 PM
To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] right to bear arms

> [G'------ computer!]
>
>>>>Beat me to it, Scott. Anyway, the founding fathers were also talking 
>>>>about
> muskets and single-shot rifles, not semi-automatic weapons, and a
> well-regulated militia, which assumes something more like the National
> Guard, not a bunch of goons running around loose on the streets with those
> weapons.<<<
>
> I've been wondering why, all during these decades of gun control debate, 
> no one, NO ONE, in authority on any level has made a really huge deal 
> about how the 2nd Amendment speaks NOTHING to the right of individuals NOT 
> in relation to a well-regulated militia to own firearms freely and without 
> restriction.  Since what I just said is, in fact, the case in plain 
> Constitutional English, I say the gov't SHOULD take away everyone's guns. 
> I suppose that would start a sword-purchasing epidemic, though.