[Magdalen] right to bear arms

[Lynn Ronkainen]

Steven Cobert said that on his late show last week. 
Lynn

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On Dec 11, 2015, at 4:12 PM, Sibyl Smirl <polycarpa3 at ckt.net> wrote:

> 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
I will take no bull from your house!  Psalms 50:9a
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