[Magdalen] right to bear arms

[Lynn Ronkainen]

Yes some of what we would consider the founding fathers were slave owners - Jefferson getting a lot of press in recent years when his lineage was firmly established in the family and descendants of a black woman who was a slave on his plantation. Many articles and books written about it. I think possibly Washington also. Memory fails but Google is your friend. 
Lynn 

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On Dec 12, 2015, at 4:56 AM, Sally Davies <sally.davies at gmail.com> wrote:

I took it to mean that (unspecified)Founding Fathers personally said or
believed that it was permissible to own slaves. Not that any wording in the
Constitution implies  or allows this.

Who were the "Founding Fathers" anyway? Were any of them pro slavery?

Sally D

On Saturday, December 12, 2015, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <
oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> <javascript:;>> 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 <javascript:;>
>