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From: dbongard@netcom.com (Dan Bongard)
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Jason Nyte (nyte@ods.ods.net) wrote:
: John M Clancy <jmclancy@ix.netcom.com> wrote:

:> "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."

:> Gun control advocates always quote the first part of the
:> amendment but conviently forget the second part. They say
:> that the Militia is The National Guard or the Police.

: And they can say that you are forgetting the first.

This from the guy who equates all militia groups with neo-Nazis?
Nobody here is forgetting the importance of a militia, with the
exception of the federal government and people like yourself.

: However, I will point out that at the time, as well as now in
: many small countries, any able-bodied male betweeen 16 and 30 WAS
: a member of the millitary (and therefore a part of the government).

Not in the United States. There WAS no standing peacetime army 
when the Bill of Righs was written.

-- Dan
