[lbo-talk] 2d Amendment/Rule of Law (Was: The curse of literacy)

[martin]

The distinction in the bor between the forces of the government 
(army.soldiers) and the forces of the populace (organized militia) 
seems to have escaped you.

Martin

On Jul 19, 2004, at 8:12 AM, Shane Mage wrote:


> The Constitution would never have been ratified if the people
> even suspected that it gave them not individual but
> governmentally defined "collective" rights, nor that their right
> to keep and bear their firearms would disappear in favor of their 
> "right"
> to enlist in a governmentally regimented military force.