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OT: Standing Up For What's Right - Against Circuit City and the local Police
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<blockquote data-quote="Rich Stern" data-source="post: 731177" data-attributes="member: 52580"><p>TJR, being persnickety, the Constitution says "keep and <em>bear</em> arms." You can look up the word <em>bear</em> in any dictionary, and I think you'll find it generally means "carry on one's person."</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>We can get into 2nd Amendment, regulation, and court decisions discussion (don't think we need to, though). But I don't believe an American citizen bearing arms can be construed as a privilege in any context. While I accept that our society feels the strong need to (rightly or wrongly) legislate behavior in pursuit of social harmony, and that some regulation may be necessary, I defer to Thomas Jefferson, who wrote, "No free man shall ever be de-barred the use of arms."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rich Stern, post: 731177, member: 52580"] TJR, being persnickety, the Constitution says "keep and [i]bear[/i] arms." You can look up the word [i]bear[/i] in any dictionary, and I think you'll find it generally means "carry on one's person." We can get into 2nd Amendment, regulation, and court decisions discussion (don't think we need to, though). But I don't believe an American citizen bearing arms can be construed as a privilege in any context. While I accept that our society feels the strong need to (rightly or wrongly) legislate behavior in pursuit of social harmony, and that some regulation may be necessary, I defer to Thomas Jefferson, who wrote, "No free man shall ever be de-barred the use of arms." [/QUOTE]
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