Word: militia
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...have much faith in our government. But common sense tells me one very important thing -- it is our government, and unlike almost any system anywhere else, it gives us the right and the means to change it peacefully. Killing one another is not the answer. If these right-wing militia types want to live in a country in which their style is completely acceptable, they should purchas a one-way ticket to Iran...
Wouldn't you love to know how many members of the Michigan Militia are Rush Dittoheads...
...Amendment absolutists who believe that the 27-word passage bestows an inviolable right to own and carry guns. Gun-control advocates, on the other hand, tend to view the amendment as a dusty historical relic. For almost everyone else, the wording of the amendment is puzzling: "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." Which part of the amendment is binding: the antiquated language about militias, or the broad language about the right to bear arms...
...federal gun-control law has ever been struck down on Second Amendment grounds. "The Second Amendment's preamble makes it clear," explains Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe, "that it is not designed to create an individual right to bear arms outside of the context of a state-run militia." As a consequence, Congress has been free to limit gun ownership and sales...
Contrary to the common caricature, not all NRA members are crazed, government-hating militia members. Many members are simply law-abiding citizens, some not even gun owners, who seek to protect a constitutionally guaranteed right to bear arms...