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DTinAZ Donating Member (325 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-09-06 06:30 PM
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8. good luck with this...
Edited on Mon Oct-09-06 06:35 PM by DTinAZ
the "comma controversy" may or may not be easy to resolve...here are a few links (not necessarily representing my opinion). From the following page:

http://dictionary.laborlawtalk.com/Second_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution

The exact punctuation of the Second Amendment is sometimes debated. At the time of the drafting of the Constitution and the Second Amendment the rules of punctuation were loose and varied by author, not considered as meaningful as modern usage of punctuation is today. This lack of importance attached to punctuation often leads to various mis-interpretations when readers try to attribute meaning to the placement of the commas in the original text of the Second Amendment.


another:

http://www.calltodecision.com/2ndAmendWordGames.htm

As for stuff on the NRA site, there's lots there...you just need to use different search strategies. For example, if you use "keep and bear arms" (without the quotes) in their own Search box, you'll come up with hundreds of hits, including huge PDF documents describing their opinions on this. If you do a Google site search on "well-regulated militia" (site:www.nra.org "well-regulated Militia"), you'll get only two hits, one to this speech:

http://www.nra.org/speech.aspx?id=6025

and one of which is the actual home page, where the text doesn't appear. However, their website "banner graphic" *used* to contain the following text:

THE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS, SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED.

which, by itself, is rather nonsensical.

BTW, if you're going to get involved in punctuation and grammar, you *might* want to carefully go over your own original post (unless the editing period has expired) and clean it up a bit....there are some errors....and you know...."glass houses" and all... :-)

DT
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