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[cdmech]

Several things said here are incorrect:

Originally Posted by Olle

The Second Amendment, read by the letter, gives mentally defective, criminals and maybe even children the same right to bear arms

The second amendment does not give us a right. "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights" The second amendment is a law which protects that right.

Originally Posted by Olle

The question is what we can do and still be reasonably close to what the founding fathers put on paper.

Reasonably is subjective. The founding fathers believed our rights were ABSOLUTE.

Originally Posted by Douglas Jr.

However, stick to the 2nd Amendment as godspel will not allow you to hold this pósition forever. I'm afraid that, legaly speaking, an Amendment is... an amendment, it can be revoked or modified if the proper proceeding is taken by the Congress, as had happened before. It is only a matter of politics, popular support and lobby.

The second amendment is in the BILL OF RIGHTS. Rights cannot be revoked or modified. You opinion that rights are a matter of politics, popular support and lobby decribes the forms of government in most every other nation. But not America.

Originally Posted by Olle

You can't protect the 2nd Amendment by stubbornly clinging on to it as an eternal truth, because it isn't.

"endowed by their creator" is an eternal truth.

Marc