"Leif" <leifrakur2@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Leif speaking: The entire first half of the Second Amendment tells us
> that the amendment is about the im****tance of a well regulated militia
> in the security of a free state. If the amendment had been about
> individual gun use, Madison would have said so.
He did Say so:
"The right of the people to keep and bear...arms shall not be
infringed. A well regulated militia, composed of the people, trained
to arms, is the best and most natural defense of a free country..."
-James Madison, I Annals of Congress 434 (June 8, 1789)
"The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which
Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation
where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms."
-James Madison
"The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed;
a well armed and well regulated militia being the best security
of a free country; but no person religiously scrupulous of bearing arms
shall be compelled to render military service in person."
-James Madison,I Annals of Congress 434, June 8, 1789
"Americans need never fear their government
because of the advantage of being armed,
which the Americans possess over the people
of almost every other nation."
-James Madison
"A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in
arms,
is the best most natural defense of a free country. "
James Madison
And he even warned us agains the Gun Grabbers :
"Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have
perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a
distorted,
bastardized form of illegitimate government. "
James Madison
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