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In reply to the discussion: On the BOR, 2nd Amendment and Incorporation [View all]former9thward
(32,006 posts)64. Not really.
The national guard did not start to get formed until the 1880s almost a 100 years after the Constitution. So that is not what the founders had in mind. The national guard was actually formed when there was a great deal of labor strife and states wanted a weapon to control it.
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No, 3 individual state constitutions did not have a statement about a right to keep and bear arms.
Glassunion
Jan 2013
#5
Good elaborating info...I'm going to use it with my next 'founding fathers' arguers...thanks.
ancianita
Jan 2013
#14
Justice Bryer's dissent in Heller, signed by all four of those that voted against the majorty
virginia mountainman
Jan 2013
#34
Other then the obvious role of the SCOTUS, I really don't care too much what Scalia says.
jmg257
Jan 2013
#59
Think about what things would be like if Miller was carrying a BAR instead of a SOSG...
jmg257
Jan 2013
#53
It's hard to get past this basic factual error: "the Bill of Rights was not extended to individuals
Romulox
Jan 2013
#50
Those are two different arguments. We can't just gloss over the error in the premise to get
Romulox
Jan 2013
#58
I'm on my side...probaly why its confusing :). No time left to get into it now, but
jmg257
Jan 2013
#72
Part of the confusion is possibly a desire to put people on 1 side or the other.
jmg257
Jan 2013
#73