[Magdalen] right to bear arms

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

The quote is straightforward. It's correct. Why resort to sophistry to deny
the OBVIOUS?



James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy

On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 5:12 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.
>
>
> --
> Sibyl Smirl
> I will take no bull from your house!  Psalms 50:9a
> mailto:polycarpa3 at ckt.net
>