Wednesday, March 28, 2018

Almost Perfect

"To prohibit a citizen from wearing or carrying a war arm ... is an unwarranted restriction upon the constitutional right to keep and bear arms. If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of constitutional privilege." [More]
Aside from the presumption of privilege, this is exactly what was intended, and throws the lie back in the teeth of the Burgers and the Stevens of this world that tbhe interpretation is a novel "gun lobby" fiction.

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