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Bad outcome
On 1/19/14, 11:01 AM, wrote:
On Sun, 19 Jan 2014 09:42:51 -0500, "F.O.A.D." wrote:
What the founders did with the Second Amendment was express their
disdain for a standing army, and it was an outgrowth of the Brits
housing uniformed troops in the homes of the colonists. What they
created was a mechanism for a trained and armed citizen militia that
could easily be organized when necessary. That trained and armed militia
these days might be the National Guard. It certainly isn't the
untrained, undisciplined rabble of firearms owners.
The concept of individuals here successfully pursuing a military action
against local, state, or national government is laughable, at best.
The SCOTUS disagreed with that in Heller and ruled that the right to
bear arms was an individual right.
In the end, the Constitution says what the SCOTUS most recently said
it says..
That's correct. I don't like the Heller decision, but the Supremes are
the final authority, subject to their changing their minds. 
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