[Magdalen] right to bear arms

Lynn Ronkainen houstonklr at gmail.com
Mon Dec 14 03:35:31 UTC 2015


I think I t was said as sarcasm "channelling" The Donald. 
Lynn

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On Dec 13, 2015, at 8:34 PM, Sibyl Smirl <polycarpa3 at ckt.net> wrote:

> On 12/12/15 6:08 AM, Jim Guthrie wrote:
> 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.

But "permitting" does not equate to a Right to own people.


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Sibyl Smirl
I will take no bull from your house!  Psalms 50:9a
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