Re: 2nd Amendment perspectives

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> Actually, the 2nd Amendment, as perceived by many, is an
> infringement by the federal government on the rights of the
> states to determine their own laws. When the second amendment
> was written, the Bill of Rights did not apply to the states
(not
> until the incorporation clause of the 14th Amendment did it
> apply to the states) and so it could never have been intended
to
> cover anything other than federal laws to restrict the states'
> militias) rights to bear arms. The police powers are reserved
> to the states, and that includes the authority to restrict
> weapons from its citizens.

No state can limit a right! Why is it gun haters try to use this
tactic to ban the right to bear arms? So you are saying a state
has a right to make laws going against federal law. What happen
in the southern states when they passed laws contrary to federal
law. You remember them there Jim crow laws.

Re: 2nd Amendment perspectives, 2/10/05, by Shmuel Goldstein.

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