The elipses are important in the quote from the US constitution. The sentence has a completely different meaning with the elipses than it does if it is quoted properly. It is incorrect to quote a part of a sentences. I could quote it as "the right of the people to keep and bare arms shall ... be infringed." The correct quotation, and the only one that should ever be used is the entire sentence.judgment_arms wrote:“…the right of the people to keep and bare arms shall not be infringed.”
What them schools are doin’ sounds like infringement to me…
"This year will go down in history. For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun registration. Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future!" -Adolf Hitler,1935
Sound familiar…:roll:
Notice the reference to a Militia and the Security of the State. It says nothing about the security of an individual. The sentence can easily be read as the right of the people to bear arms is gauranteed in as far as they are needed to protect the state.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.
The quote from A. Hitler is just stupid. Many contries have full gun registration, Canada for example, and they aren't on a path of world domination, restriction of personal freedoms, genocide are any of the other things A. Hitler is rightly condemend for. Besides, I'm sure I can find a couple really nice quotes from Adolph that exactly match things R. Reagan said about the importance of a ginormous military.