[Magdalen] right to bear arms

[Grace Cangialosi]

Well, at least two of them--Jefferson and Madison--owned slaves, as did Washington's wife, Martha.

> On Dec 12, 2015, at 5:56 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:;>
>>