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Old 06-23-2015, 08:26 AM   #1507
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Originally Posted by Fozzie_DeBear View Post
That is probably the only strategy that I have heard with a chance of making a difference. I have often wondered why the "...as part of a well regulated militia" just gets overlooked.
Troutman, I think, posted a link to the New Yorker a couple pages back that explained that. The NRA transitioned into an activist political lobby group and spent millions of dollars on a concerted campaign to reinterpret the US Constitution so as to trivialize the militia part, and therefore reinvent it to mean it was an individual right rather than a collective right for mutual protection.
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