Wednesday, September 06, 2006

"Well Regulated"

So to recap the Brady Campaign, VPC and ACLU positions, the Framers included the words “well regulated” in an amendment stating the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed so that government could impose “commonsense regulations.” These would include laws to deny the keeping and bearing of arms, especially since only government agents were intended to be empowered by the Bill of Rights in the first place.
"Well Regulated," my Sept. 2006 Rights Watch column for GUNS Magazine, is now online.
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1 comment:

  1. E. David Quammen9/06/2006 3:51 PM

    Yeah, and Mason also had said:

    "If the clause stands as it is now, it will take from the state
    legislatures what DIVINE PROVIDENCE HAS GIVEN TO EVERY INDIVIDUAL--the MEANS OF SELF-DEFENSE. Unless it be moderated in some degree, it will ruin us, and introduce a standing army."

    - George Mason, The Debates in the Several State Conventions,
    (Virginia), June 14, 1788

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