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Marked in Pgh on Monday, June 30, 2008 8:39:54 PM
Thanks Lady Logician. The Trib should read Hamilton, then extract communal head from their backside! First, they need to fire their own editors for not checking with the founding fathers, instead of contemplaiting their navels from the inside. There was no army of any magnitude at the time of the Constitutional Convention or during its ratification (see Federalist Paper 29, you idiots) and Hamilton emphasized the appointment of the officers of the militia exclusively by the states, another party to the Constitution along with the people, to placate the states' fears of the new Federal government possibly using the various state militias against the states by marching those militias state to state and against individual citizens. Even before the Constitution, none of the then colonies had anything to do with the organizing of the Minute Men militias who faced the British at Lexington. That was done, brace yourselves, by the individuals who stood up to the British Empire and started the War of Independence. These citizens, the People of the United States, wanted to protect their natural right to keep and bear arms while at the same time possibly put together a national militia to at least supplement the army or be a substitute to and the best possible security against it (see my post on Reasonableness and the Courts from today just after 7PM and Lady Logician's post at about the same time). Their right to keep and bear arms and to protect themselves and their neighbors proceeded the writing of the Constitution and were then formerly protected by the Second Amendment. It's all about individual rights, just like the people today have the right not to listen to imbeciles like the one who wrote the article in question and the subpar editor who didn't properly fact check him. No wonder the liberal newspapers are losing readership, the ailment is self-inflicted. Shove away.