Second Amendment grammar -- the Framers parsed it one way, but will the Supreme Court agree with their analysis? (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Jonathan Lighter]

It is difficult to argue that the present National Guard is _not_ "a well-regulated militia."  Just what that interpretation may mean to the import of the amendment I leave to others.

  JL

James Smith <jsmithjamessmith at YAHOO.COM> wrote:
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My question is: when are they going to get around to
organizing this well-regulated militia? It's been
two-hundred years!



James D. SMITH |If history teaches anything
South SLC, UT |it is that we will be sued
jsmithjamessmith at yahoo.com |whether we act quickly and decisively
|or slowly and cautiously.

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