[Magdalen] right to bear arms

Jim Guthrie jguthrie at pipeline.com
Sat Dec 12 12:08:15 UTC 2015


From: Sally Davies

>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.

Several owned slaves. It should be noted that despite Sibyl's revisionist 
claptrap, the courts -- including the Supreme Court, upheld things like Fugitive 
Slave laws because the Constitution permitted slavery -- explicitly in the 
3/5ths compromise.

Cheers,
Jim



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