"Bill McKee" wrote in message
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"Peter Aitken" wrote in message
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"Bill McKee" wrote in message
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None of those items are in the constitution!
The 2nd amendment is the only one that is even close, and it does not
specify or limit type of arms.


Huh? That's my precise point. If you believe that the constitution must
be interpreted on a literal word-for-word basis, then states can have
slavery if they wish (because the constitution does not expressly
prohibit it), states can prevent women and blacks from voting (because
the constitution does not expressly prohibit it), and the government has
no right to regulate drug sales (because the constitution does not
expressly provide for it). If the intent of the framers is so important,
the surely the "arms" mentioned in the 2nd amendment does not include
repeating pistols and automatic rifles because the framers did not know
of such things and could not possibly have intended them to be included
in the definition of "arms."

Peter Aitken


There is an amendment prohibiting slavery in the US.

You are corerct - my mistake.

Drug sales are interstate commerce. Expressly allowed to be controlled by
the Fed's.

Interpretation! Where are drugs mentioned in the constitution? Or why can't
drug companies sell horse pee within a state?

The Fed's do overstep their authority at times. Is why we have courts
that can rule on such cases. The state of Texas should have sued the
Fed's over Waco. Was clearly a case of Fed's overstepping their
authority. Actually people should have been tried for murder and gone to
jail for other crimes in that case.

Oh please. A law enforcement officer knocks on a door to serve a legal
warrant and is shot. Feeble-minded religious nutcases armed wth machine guns
set their own compound on fire. This has been investigated to death and only
the most fervid conspiracy theory nitwits still whine about it.

Calling out the active duty military, should have had everyone who
authorized it unemployed.

What? That makes no sense at all. Lay off the gin, will ya g?

If we want to change the constitution, there are procedures. Been used to
pass 16 admendments in addition to the Original 10 Bill of Rights.

Yes. And your point is....?

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Peter Aitken