A Usenet persona calling itself Michael Daly wrote:
On 24-Feb-2005, Scott Weiser wrote:
The 2nd Amendment does not require one to be in a militia in order to
exercise the RKBA protected by the 2nd Amendment.
So I guess that part about "A well-regulated Militia being necessary
to the security of a free State" is the part you've never bothered to
read?
You guess wrong. You also, again, fail to understand the meaning of the
phrase. This deliberate misapprehension is commonplace amongst gun-banners.
No Supreme Court case has ever supported the notion that membership in the
Militia is a predicate to keeping and bearing arms. Ever.
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Regards,
Scott Weiser
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© 2005 Scott Weiser
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