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Keith Olbermann

patphil

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1. What most people don't realize

Reply to BigmanPigman (Original post)

Tue Jul 13, 2021, 04:34 PM

Jul 2021

was that in an early draft of the constitution, the second amendment referred to clothing...the right to bare arms was meant to guarantee the right to wear short sleeve shirts.
Unfortunately, in the final copy, some anonymous gun nut changed the wording and that's why we are in this mess today.

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K Olbermann: 2nd Ammend. doesn't authorize ownership [View all] BigmanPigman Jul 2021 OP

What most people don't realize patphil Jul 2021 #1

....and here I always thought that it was originally meant sdfernando Jul 2021 #2

Fake news; meant to misdirect from the original modification to the 2nd Amendment. patphil Jul 2021 #3