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From: sunny@sun.uucp (Ms. Sunny Kirsten)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: rape and firearms and death
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Date: Tue, 23-Jul-85 20:54:40 EDT
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> > their environments.  It's time to recognize our constitutionally guaranteed
> > freedoms (including the right to bear arms, which cannot constitutionally
> > be infringed upon by the Feds, the State, the County, nor the City), and
> > stop trying to shove your preferred lifestyle down the throats of everyone
> > in the "United" states of amerika.
> > 
> > 				Sunny
> 
> I don't have a copy of the Constitution in front of me, but isn't that
> "right" specifically granted for maintaining a militia?  I think there
> is some difference between that and an individual's right to bear arms.
> 
The founders believed the people should be the militia, not hired mercenaries
(sometimes called an army).
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{ucbvax,decvax,ihnp4}!sun!sunny (Ms. Sunny Kirsten)