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[quote="anon-97on"][quote="publius-109q"]It doesn't even really matter what the 2nd amendment says. 
It's all in how the Supreme Court interprets what is said.
Being that Scalia is in league with the right-wing...he interprets the Constitution the way that his cronies want him to interpret it.
See how it works?
[/quote]

For almost 200 years the Second Amendment was interpreted by courts and the Supreme Court, and was generally accepted to mean we had the right to maintain and arm public militias.  Haven't any of you ever toured an historic town and seen where they used to keep the armory for the local militia?  The idea that it meant an inalienable right for every individual to arm themselves wasn't really propagated on any mainstream level until the mid-to-late 1970's, when the NRA went from primarily a gun-safety and hobbyist association to a powerful lobbying group, following a Coup D'etat of its leadership.  Interesting that in the span of a generation almost 200 years of interpretation, that actually extended back to when the "founding fathers" were still alive and in power, is forgotten and a supposedly "strict constructionist" like Scalia can embrace a clear "revisionist" interpretation of the Amendment as sacred.[/quote]

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