re text of white house announcement and q as on clipper chip encryption in article yuma acns colostate edu holland cs colostate edu douglas craig holland writes in article apr afterlife ncsc mil rlward afterlife ncsc mil robert ward writes in article bontchev fbihh bontchev fbihh informatik uni hamburg de writes and since the us constitutions guarantees the right to every american to bear arms why is not every american entitled as a matter of have you read the applicable part of the constitution and interpreted it in context if not please do so before posting this misinterpretation again it refers to the right of the people to organize a militia not for individuals to carry handguns grenades and assault rifles read the constitution yourself the second amendment says the right to bear arms shall not be infringed so a well regulated militia may be more easily formed i have an interpretation of the second that shows there are no qualifications to the right to keep and bear arms if you want i can e mail it to you by the way gun talk belongs in talk politics guns doug holland mr ward before you start blathering about your skill interpreting the constitution it might be helpful to learn to read after a review with a high school english teacher emphasizing participial phrases you might start with the second amendment and follow it up with th congress nd session committee print the right to keep and bear arms of the subcomittee on the constitution of the committee on the judiciary united states senate th congress second session february gpo no o this authoritative heavily researched and annotated document clearly turns your interpretation into specious claptrap which is a polite way of saying utter bullshit in spite of your false assertion to the contrary the second amendment does protect the right of the individual citizen in his capacity as an individual to keep and bear arms and mr holland imho blatantly and harmfully false information asserted as fact and globally distributed deserves globally distributed rebuttal in the forum in which it is posted and besides this site doesn t carry t p g harryb phred data io com phred harryb data io com no free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms the strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is as a last resort to protect themselves against tyranny in government thomas jefferson
