Mass defiance of a California law requiring registration of so-called “Assault Weapons” prompts admiration and congratulations for their civil disobedience, as well as reflections on the intent of drafters of the United States Constitution in including “the right of the people to keep and bear arms” among the protections they enshrined.
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More on the right to keep and bear arms :
- Gun violence in the disarmed society
- Buying and selling the 2nd Amendment
- A disarming proposal
- Some lessons from Black history
- Shall Issue
Tags: assault weapons, Bill of Rights, gun control, Hitler, military, militia, Miller, RKBA
