[ExI] second amendment rights

[BillK]

On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 6:46 AM, Samantha Atkins wrote:
> Freedom was the intent including freedom from government getting out of
> hand.  That is rather clear in the major documents and in the writings of
> many of the founders.    Analyzing particular phrasings of the 2nd amendment
> in the light of much later thoughts and opinions and quibbling over the same
> in my view totally misses the central point and is deadly (perhaps
> literally) dull to boot.
>

If you don't want to work out what the 2nd amendment means for the
time and circumstances in which it was written, then you're pretty
much making it up as you go along.

All you've got to do is convince the other 300,000,000 Americans that
your version is best.

BillK