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Re: Michael Moore: Guns Are Okay For Me, But Not For You

Re: Michael Moore: Guns Are Okay For Me, But Not For You  
RD (The Sandman)
From:RD (The Sandman)
Subject:Re: Michael Moore: Guns Are Okay For Me, But Not For You
Date:Sun, 23 Jan 2005 12:05:37 -0700
Gactimus wrote:
> "Scout" <4guns@adelphia.removeme.this2.nospam.net> wrote in
> news:cfOdna7srpzG-m_cRVn-1g@adelphia.com:
>
>
>>"Gactimus" wrote in message
>>news:9xtId.241$PB.138@okepread01...
>>
>>
>>>"Scout" <4guns@adelphia.removeme.this2.nospam.net> wrote in
>>>news:69Kdncmug9yXwW_cRVn-3Q@adelphia.com:
>>>
>>>
>>>>"Gactimus" wrote in message
>>>>news:5RjId.203$PB.135@okepread01...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Daniel Kolle wrote in
>>>>>news:vs73v095be64r4v95gjibgt8oi9gfbetr4@4ax.com:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>On 20 Jan 2005 15:27:17 GMT, Gactimus thought
>>>>>>hard and said:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>It looks like Spike Lee was right. Mr. Michael "Bowling for
>>>>>>>Columbine" Moore's bodyguards do carry guns,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>"Filmmaker Michael Moore's bodyguard was arrested for carrying an
>>>>>>>unlicensed weapon in New York's JFK airport Wednesday night."
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Is it criminal to walk around with an unregistered or unlicensed
>>>>>>firearm, Snubie?
>>>>>
>>>>>Apaarently it is in New York.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>"A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free
>>>>>>state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, SHALL NOT BE
>>>>>>INFRINGED."
>>>>>
>>>>>The Second Amendment doesn't apply to the states.
>>>>
>>>>14th Amendment. I think what you mean to say is that the Courts
>>>>haven't forced the states to recognize the 2nd as they have the other
>>>>Amendments.
>>>
>>>The 14th Amendment does no such thing.
>>
>>Actually the 14th does, nor is there any language that restricts the
>>Constitutional rights that shall be applied to the states.
>>
>>
>>
>>>The Courts have only recently been
>>>enforcing the Bill of Rights on the states.
>>
>>If you consider about 100 years of such enforcement to be "recently".
>
>
> Less than that.

Nope. Just compensation under the 5th Amendment was incorporated in
1897. Just about 107 or 108 years ago.

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