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Gun Control Reform Activism

safeinOhio

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3. It has to be looked at in the terms

Reply to safeinOhio (Original post)

Wed Jun 15, 2016, 12:26 PM

Jun 2016

of the late 18th Century, as all of the document does. For 200 years it was a community right and not an individual right and as the article says, they left it up to the states to decide personal rights. The gun rights folks always say we must judge the US Constitution by looking at what states wrote in their Constitutions, when it is the other way around.

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Opinion: What America’s gun fanatics won’t tell you [View all] safeinOhio Jun 2016 OP

Very good article. DawgHouse Jun 2016 #1

The Second Amendment was interpreted billh58 Jun 2016 #2

It has to be looked at in the terms safeinOhio Jun 2016 #3

Scalia did his best to do away with that "well regulated militia" clause, in the Heller decision. Paladin Jun 2016 #4

Interesting - they do know that Hamilton's proposition was NOT used when organizing the militia? jmg257 Jun 2016 #5

Buying guns, ammo or belonging to the NRA Mendocino Jun 2016 #6