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“I’m here to defend my Second Amendment rights, but the Second Amendment doesn’t say anything about having a fully automatic assault rifle that can mow down 30 people in 10 seconds,” he said.
Actually, the Second Amendment covers the subject rather succinctly:
"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."
As further clarification, Tench Coxe, one of the people we consider as founders of our republic, wrote:
"Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man against his own bosom. Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birthright of an American… The unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people."
Note carefully the phrase "every terrible instrument of the soldier."
Wouldn't that include a "fully automatic assault rifle"?
Feb 11, 2020, 10:07:19 AM
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