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Yes you are. HyogaRott Send a noteboard - 26/12/2012 08:06:01 PM
The Second Amendment itself states its entire justification as "a well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state." So there is every constitutional basis for regulating the HELL out of arms; they could even be made conditional on militia membership. Banning or confiscating guns would be totally unconstitutional, obviously, but regulating them is perfectly valid. Machine guns, for example, have been illegal without federal registration and permits for about 80 years, and no ones constitutional rights were violated.


learn the gramatical difference between dependant and independant clauses.

Just becasue the courts are allowing/endorsing it does not mean that it is right/correct/proper.

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Explain that remark, it is not obvious to me *NM* - 21/12/2012 11:00:10 PM 530 Views
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Re: Yes the media is using terms incorrectly but the point still stands. - 22/12/2012 04:12:30 AM 854 Views
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Yes you are. - 26/12/2012 08:06:01 PM 716 Views
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*see previous grammar lesson* *NM* - 28/12/2012 10:31:43 PM 484 Views
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It irritates me too. *NM* - 01/01/2013 01:55:05 PM 504 Views

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