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<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 21.0px 0.0px"><font face="Baskerville Old Face" size="5" style="font: 18.0px Baskerville Old Face">It seems to me that according to the latest ruling by the US Supreme Court every citizen of the United States is now a member of a "well regulated militia" and therefore has a right to keep and bear arms.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 21.0px 0.0px"><font face="Baskerville Old Face" size="5" style="font: 18.0px Baskerville Old Face">Ralph</font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 21px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Baskerville Old Face" size="5" style="font: 18.0px Baskerville Old Face"></font><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><font face="Baskerville Old Face" size="5" style="font: 18.0px Baskerville Old Face"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 21.0px 0.0px"><font face="Times" size="7" style="font: 32.0px Times"><b>[Vision2020] Crabtree and the NRA</b></font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times"><b>Garrett Clevenger</b> <a href="mailto:vision2020%40moscow.com?Subject=%5BVision2020%5D%20Crabtree%20and%20the%20NRA&In-Reply-To=411243710.735740.1288551657335.JavaMail.root%40cl03-host04.dlls.pa.frontiernet.net"><font color="#000af1" style="color: #000af1">garrettmc at frontier.com </font></a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times"><i>Sun Oct 31 12:46:57 PDT 2010</i></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; min-height: 19px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 13px; ">"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."</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Courier; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Courier; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier">The Second Amendment is the only amendment that has the word "regulated" and that follows the word "well."</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Courier; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier">Why is that and what does that mean?</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Courier; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier">Probably is because the Founders intended to regulate the militia, those who have the Constitutional right to bear arms.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Courier; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier">I doubt it means anybody can use any weapon any way they choose. It seems like that would be a recipe for disaster.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Courier; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier">Does the NRA really want people to hold and use weapons indiscriminitely, or should such use be subject to regulation as stipulated?</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Courier; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier">The NRA ignores the first part of the right to bear arms and they do so all while seemingly not caring that government abridges free speech, allows religion to dictate government policy, allows unreasonable searches and seizures and inflicts cruel and unusual punishment-- all of which are unconstitutional.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Courier; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier">It is not unconstitutional to regulate gun ownership.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Courier; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier">Government can also regulate gun and ammunition manufacturing. They may even ban it if they were serious about controlling guns, which obviously is not the case</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Courier; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier">Until people accept that government has the right to regulate gun ownership, anything the the NRA says is intended to rally support of fanatics who think the 2nd Amendment somehow guarantees their right to hunt. It's all about fund-raising for the NRA </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Courier; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier">I'm a gun owner, so don't think I'm completely anti-gun. I just think there are way more constitutional infringments that are actually occuring, most at the behest of the right-wing.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Courier; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier">Garrett Clevenger</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Courier; min-height: 16px; "><br></div></font><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div></div></body></html>