<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>On Aug 19, 2016, at 2:02 PM, Dave Sill <<a href="mailto:sparge@gmail.com">sparge@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 4:29 PM, John Clark <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johnkclark@gmail.com" target="_blank">johnkclark@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span><div><br></div></span>Nukes? It's often difficult to figure out <div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">exactly </div>what the framers <div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> meant when they wrote various things in</div> the constitution<div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">, but one thing we can be sure of is that when they said "Arms" as in:</div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><br></div></div><i>"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."</i></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">they didn't mean AK47's, they couldn't have imagined such things , they meant muzzle loading muskets and single shot flintlock pistols. And as for nukes... well come on!</font></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Exactly. Just like freedom of the press can't possibly apply to anything other than the screw presses they had in the 18th century. Radio, TV, Internet... well come on!</div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><br><div>Right! ;) </div><div><br></div><div>Let's remember, too, that the quote is from an amendment -- not the original document as ratified and that the amendment and its companions in the Bill of Rights were only added to get the nation to swallow the bitter pill of a much more expansive and powerful central government. (For those who can imagine it, it meant that some people expected the central government to overstep its bounds. They weren't wrong as the subsequent decade -- the 01790s -- shows.)</div><div><br></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Regards,</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dan</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Sample my Kindle books via:</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><font color="#000000" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://author.to/DanUst" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">http://author.to/DanUst</a></font></div></div></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><br></div></body></html>