JDay123 at BellSouth.com (Jd) wrote:
>In alt.education Re: brain sizes: Einstein's and women's,
>Bob LeChevalier wrote...
>>I asked...
>>>Then you're ok with guns and killing in self defense?
>>... to which you replied:
>>>I'm OK with smiting thieves when they are found breaking up, in any country
>>governed by the Torah. That is not the US.
>>That which you wrote infers that you don't agree with the US
>Constiution.
I said absolutely nothing about the US Constitution. I stated one
circumstance where the Bible allows the smiting of thieves.
>For the record, do you support the right to keep and bear arms, and the
>right of the governed to form militias? "Yes" or "No" for the record.
I will not give a "yes" or "no". I support the US Constitution which says in
the 2nd Amendment:
"A well-regulated Militia, being necessary for the security of a free State,
the right of the People to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed".
within the context of the United States (people of other countries do not
necessarily have 2nd amendment rights). I do not believe that this amendment
grants an UNLIMITED right to keep and bear arms to anyone, but rather only in
the stated context of a "well-regulated militia", and the courts seem to
agree. I do not believe that there is any "right of the governed to form
militias". There is a *necessity* for a free *state* to have a (singular)
*well-regulated* militia. Militias are thus of the state and not of the
"governed", bearing arms is of the people.
Beyond that, I do not have strong opinions on the question of the right to
bear arms. I don't think that the 2nd amendment is relevant to most issues
regarding gun control. Nor does it have anything to do with a right to
defense of self or families, which probably exists as a common law right
protected under the 9th amendment (though I haven't read the relevant
jurisprudence to verify this).
lojbab
