Re: 2nd Amendment

[Jeffrey Miller]

Dean Forster wrote:
> 
> I think it's safe to say that the framers of the
> constitution did more with their lives than argue
> points of law.  They were creating something, they
> weren't trying to pick something apart to further
> their own ends.  Shall we debate the use of commas in
> other documents now?  please say no.
>

Whoa.. hang on - the founding fathers certainly WERE debating minutae of
law, wording, etc etc  They were not the United States then - they were
13 colonies (plus representatives from the Republic of Vermont ;) trying
to find a way to forge their disparate cultures and societies together
into one nation-state/collective.

You better believe they were out to further their own ends.

-j-