From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jun 28 15:05:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA15550 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sun, 28 Jun 1998 15:05:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jason03.u.washington.edu (root@jason03.u.washington.edu [140.142.77.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA15545 for ; Sun, 28 Jun 1998 15:05:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from saul7.u.washington.edu (root@saul7.u.washington.edu [140.142.82.2]) by jason03.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.05) with ESMTP id PAA34840; Sun, 28 Jun 1998 15:05:03 -0700 Received: from s8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by saul7.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.04) with SMTP id PAA21845; Sun, 28 Jun 1998 15:05:03 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1998 14:54:51 +0000 (GMT) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jason@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu To: drifter@stratos.net cc: Frank Pawlak , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Does it's true? In-Reply-To: <19980627202059.A392@stratos.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 27 Jun 1998 drifter@stratos.net wrote: > I realize that "A well-regulated militia, being necessary for the >defense of a free-society, the right to bear arms shall not be prohibited" >(that is not exactly verbatim, but close enough, if memory serves) is not >the most clearly-written part of the constitution. This is clear if one understands the term "militia" as folks did back in the day. Many states had well crafted plans for the organization of the militia. In Georgia (if memory serves) the militia was "every able bodied man over the age of 16." Furthermore, these men were required to maintain "one gun, so many grains of powder, and so many balls." If you examine militia the second amendment is utterly clear. Jason Wells | http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message