Are all you gun owners ready to obide by the rest of the Constitution, where the word Militia is mentioned?
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Section 8. The Congress shall have power to

To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions;

To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the militia, and for governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the United States, reserving to the states respectively, the appointment of the officers, and the authority of training the militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;

Section 2. The President shall be commander in chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the militia of the several states, when called into the actual service of the United States;

But I can see that you did not answer the question.

Does the NRA and the ACLU misread the Constitution as written. And Don't tell me the founders did not know the rules of the Language.

Some things, when not specifically stated in the constitution can be changed or intrepreted by a Court, but when the Constitution is so specific, it requires a Constitutional Amendment. If you don't like the way it was written, there is provision to amend the Constitution.

Your response is stupid, and is expresses hate for our Constitution.

But I can see that you did not answer the question.

Does the NRA and the ACLU misread the Constitution as written. And Don't tell me the founders did not know the rules of the Language.

Some things, when not specifically stated in the constitution can be changed or intrepreted by a Court, but when the Constitution is so specific, it requires a Constitutional Amendment. If you don't like the way it was written, there is provision to amend the Constitution.

Your response is stupid, and is expresses hate for our Constitution.

Jim

--- On Wed, 6/30/10, IntenseDebate Notifications <notifications@intensedebatemail.com> wrote:

This is not a new idea to me!!!

ACLU and NRA Conspiracy

We have been victims of a conspiracy by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the National Rifle Association (NRA). They seem to have agreed that, “If the ACLU is not required to read the First Amendment to the Constitution as it is written, the NRA won't be required to read the Second Amendment correctly, either.”

A language consists of words and punctuation, and words and punctuation have meanings. A sentence expresses a complete thought, a phrase by itself does not. A period means the thought is complete, a comma means it is not yet complete. The Framers of the Constitution knew that, even if the ACLU and the NRA do not.

In contrast to the ACLU’s opinion, the First Amendment says, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.”

The First Amendment does not prohibit the public celebration of religion, nor does it require “separation of church and state.

The Second Amendment to our Constitution reads, “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.”

That tells me that, “People who are members of a well regulated Militia, have the right to keep and bear arms.” Those are commas after the words Militia, State, and Arms, not periods! You cannot ignore the first two phrases, and read only the last two. The Second Amendment is one complete sentence, and it contains one complete thought.

By the way, one time I was visiting with my Uncle, a gun owner and at that time the Superintendent of School at one of the largest cities in the US. A subject in the news that day had concerned the Second Amendment. At one point I said, “Uncle Virgil, please get a copy of the Constitution from your shelve, and read the second as if you were an English Professor, rather than a gun owner.

The look on his face when he finished was priceless.

When Brown was Sec of State, the powers that be, and most people in the Gov, hated him so much they decided to remodel his office in the Capital, and sent him to temp offices a long way from the Capital.

I met him in his office in Sacto, and on airplanes from LAX to Sacto, and he was obnoxious.

I don't know why http://www.travel-tidbits.com/tidbits/005867.shtm... doesn't work from here. Try http://www.travel-tidbits.com, then France on the right, then the second listing for Lourdes under France Photo Tidbits.

Maybe I will wake up soon.

I don't know why http://www.travel-tidbits.com/tidbits/005867.shtm... doesn't work from here. Try http://www.travel-tidbits, then France on the right, then the second listing for Lourdes under France Photo Tidbits.

I don't know why anyone would do this, but I put it here, just in case.

Sorry for the problem, I don't know what happened.

Maybe this will be considered bragging, but if you log on to

http://www.kdc.pl/piesn-o-bernadetcie_p10146272.h...

you will see the book, "The Song of Bernadette" that has just been translated, and published in the Polish language.

The reason for this note, is that the photo on the cover of the book, is a snapshot that I snapped at Lourdes, back in the eighties. They found it on my Web Site at http://www.travel-tidbits.com/tidbits/005867.shtm...

And Ms. Jones was one of my favorites.