[Magdalen] right to bear arms

[Grace Cangialosi]

As I read it, it doesn't say that they necessarily put this into the Constitution, but that this was a consideration at the time they were writing it.
But maybe I'm just splitting hairs...

> On Dec 12, 2015, at 1:42 AM, 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> 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
>>