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Authored by: JamesK on Sunday, December 23 2012 @ 05:37 PM EST |
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Please note that gun ownership is tied directly to freedom.
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Please compare freedom in the U.S. vs Canada.
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Authored by: Ian Al on Monday, December 24 2012 @ 03:35 AM EST |
I was replying to Wol. I don't think he lives in the US or believes there is a
generalised argument for widespread firearm ownership. I could be wrong.
Since the majority of citizens are not US citizens, then any argument that the
US Constitution calls for something does not provide a compelling, rational,
fact-based argument for the majority.
When I talk about rational argument, I mean argument that does not depend on
interpretation of the Constitution. I do not argue that the Constitution is not
rational, but that it is not a compelling, rational, fact-based argument for the
majority of the world's citizens.
If a US citizen argues that the Constitution says something is the right of US
citizens then I look at the wording of the Constitution to see if that is true.
I don't talk American and so I may misunderstand the text of the Constitution
about the right to bear firearms.
As an un-Constitutional foreigner, my reading of the US Constitution does not
say that it is a general right of US citizens to bear arms. It limits the right
to bear arms to the specific purpose of being part of a militia protecting the
United States.
militia
n 1: civilians trained as soldiers but not part of the regular army [syn:
militia, reserves].
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