[PrestonSturges]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Tanada', 'T')he Second Amendment clearly refers to the right of the People to keep and bare Arms, under the 14th Amendment .

[americandream]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PrestonSturges', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Tanada', 'T')he Second Amendment clearly refers to the right of the People to keep and bare Arms, under the 14th Amendment .

[Cloud9]

Tanada, the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments were civil war amendments passed by the radical republicans to ensure that the rights of newly freed slaves were not repealed by Jim Crow laws. Most realized that slavery was but a name and that the conditions of slavery could be reestablished by state law in the southern states. The 14th Amendment took away the voting rights of those southern white males who had in anyway participated in the rebellion and protected the rights of the freedmen.

The idea was really quite simple. A state under the 14th Amendment was prohibited from violating the rights of a citizen of the United States. Those rights were defined in the Constitution.

The arguments that the Second Amendment only applies to the District of Columbia because it is a federal territory is ludicrous. It would be the same as arguing that freedom of speech is only guaranteed in federal territories.

The collective right argument for the Second Amendment is the argument of gun abolitionist. We should stop using the term gun control. That is a euphemism designed to confuse the simple minded. Those who rally under the banner of gun control are for the most part gun abolitionist. Their agenda is to remove all firearms from the hands of private citizens.

These people are more terrified of an armed citizen than they are of a totalitarian state.

[americandream]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cloud9', 'T')anada, the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments were civil war amendments passed by the radical republicans to ensure that the rights of newly freed slaves were not repealed by Jim Crow laws. Most realized that slavery was but a name and that the conditions of slavery could be reestablished by state law in the southern states. The 14th Amendment took away the voting rights of those southern white males who had in anyway participated in the rebellion and protected the rights of the freedmen.

The idea was really quite simple. A state under the 14th Amendment was prohibited from violating the rights of a citizen of the United States. Those rights were defined in the Constitution.

The arguments that the Second Amendment only applies to the District of Columbia because it is a federal territory is ludicrous. It would be the same as arguing that freedom of speech is only guaranteed in federal territories.

The collective right argument for the Second Amendment is the argument of gun abolitionist. We should stop using the term gun control. That is a euphemism designed to confuse the simple minded. Those who rally under the banner of gun control are for the most part gun abolitionist. Their agenda is to remove all firearms from the hands of private citizens.

These people are more terrified of an armed citizen than they are of a totalitarian state.

[Cloud9]

The South West was Mexican territory. Florida was Spanish not Mexican. The rest of the southern states were dominated by white, Anglo-Saxon, Protestants. The southern states that fomented the rebellion had watched their prosperity taxed away by the more populous industrializing north. The abolitionists pushed them over the edge with the election of Lincoln.

Northern workers feared slavery because in theory slaves worked for free and this threatened their jobs. Northern intellectuals objected to slavery on moral grounds. The Mexicans had very little to do with the rebellion.

[americandream]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cloud9', 'T')he South West was Mexican territory. Florida was Spanish not Mexican. The rest of the southern states were dominated by white, Anglo-Saxon, Protestants. The southern states that fomented the rebellion had watched their prosperity taxed away by the more populous industrializing north. The abolitionists pushed them over the edge with the election of Lincoln.

Northern workers feared slavery because in theory slaves worked for free and this threatened their jobs. Northern intellectuals objected to slavery on moral grounds. The Mexicans had very little to do with the rebellion.

[Cloud9]

Are you 12? I have to go do something constructive.

[americandream]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cloud9', 'A')re you 12? I have to go do something constructive.

[3aidlillahi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he arguments that the Second Amendment only applies to the District of Columbia because it is a federal territory is ludicrous. It would be the same as arguing that freedom of speech is only guaranteed in federal territories.

[Jotapay]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('americandream', 'O')nly because they outwitted you in the jungle of the freemarket and you're peeved. See the free market for what it is, you're too dumb to rule whereas they have what it takes to dictate the rules.

[Jotapay]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('americandream', 'D')idn't much of the southern US belong to the Mexicans anyways?

[Kristen]

The whole idea of having to "define" something in law is used to insert ambiguous terms creating loopholes keeps lawyers employed

[americandream]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Jotapay', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('americandream', 'D')idn't much of the southern US belong to the Mexicans anyways?

[americandream]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Jotapay', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('americandream', 'O')nly because they outwitted you in the jungle of the freemarket and you're peeved. See the free market for what it is, you're too dumb to rule whereas they have what it takes to dictate the rules.

[Jotapay]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('americandream', 'C')alm down. All I wanted to know was what your gardener, Zapata, was up to during the Tuskegee Experiment.

[Jotapay]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('americandream', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Jotapay', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('americandream', 'O')nly because they outwitted you in the jungle of the freemarket and you're peeved. See the free market for what it is, you're too dumb to rule whereas they have what it takes to dictate the rules.

[americandream]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Jotapay', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('americandream', 'C')alm down. All I wanted to know was what your gardener, Zapata, was up to during the Tuskegee Experiment.

[americandream]

And Jotapay my old mate, the governement as you put it is simply a club of the wiliest who have beaten you and will continue to beat you (being the impressionable peasant you are) to the goods. Whose envious now!

[vision-master]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('americandream', 'A')nd Jotapay my old mate, the governement as you put it is simply a club of the wiliest who have beaten you and will continue to beat you (being the impressionable peasant you are) to the goods. Whose envious now!

[americandream]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vision-master', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('americandream', 'A')nd Jotapay my old mate, the governement as you put it is simply a club of the wiliest who have beaten you and will continue to beat you (being the impressionable peasant you are) to the goods. Whose envious now!