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Shooting Sports => Fire Arm News => Topic started by: mudbrook on April 30, 2007, 07:48:03 AM
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Sensible Gun Regulation? What Does That Mean?
Posted: 29 Apr 2007 07:26 AM CDT
Even when you have people claiming to be supporters of the Second Amendment, when their mind thinking is the way this one college professor’s is, it helps to explain why Americans’ constitutional right to bear arms is being depleted and crooks rights are being enhanced.
For as long as there have been guns in America, there have been gun regulations. Indeed, in the decades after the adoption of the Second Amendment, gun regulations became more restrictive, not less. The Second Amendment links the right to keep and bear arms with the civic obligation to participate in a well-regulated militia. It has nothing to do with the use of firearms for self-defense, hunting or target shooting. Recognizing that the Second Amendment does not address these issues does not mean that Americans have no right to engage in all of those activities.
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