Re: Unidentified subject!

[Ken Medlin <dev-plan@moscow.com>]

"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." (Art. 2)  The provision must be taken in its entirety, not 
only to justify the access by citizens to weapons of mass murder (AK's, 
machine guns, artillery, etc.) which have no place in a citizen's home 
when we have democratically appointed police, National Guards and Armed 
Forces [l789 read Militia] under popular controls to secure person and 
property. In 1789 we did NOT have the privilege of accessing murderous 
weapons other than a flint rifle.In l789 - l812 the new nation was 
threatend by both foreign and seditious elements. That was THEN, and the 
purpose of the article. If one insists that such articles are cut in 
stone never to be reinterpreted, then we are condemned to a governing 
system that will ultimately be antiquated and useless, and lead to our 
self-destruction. 
   "We the People ... in order to insure domestic TRANQUILITY, provide 
for the COMMON DEFENSE, promote the GENERAL WELFARE, and secure the 
blessings of LIBERTY... do establish this Constitution." (Preamble) These 
provisions must be weighed in along with that which provides for citizen 
ownership of a firearm for self defense. How can one maintain that a 
"right" to possess lethal weapons capable of murdering scores of people 
within a few seconds is consistent with securing domestic tranquility, 
promoting people's welfare and protecting individual liberty to moving in 
and about our communities without fear of lethal attack? Let's be 
reasonaable, folks, and seek a solution to the madness through the 
courts.  If and when our separation of powers becomes so eroded that the 
citizen is threatend with being stripped of all exercise of political 
action, then resort to citizen militias with heavy weapons would be an 
option. But when have we ever, ever been close to such a threat to our 
constitutional rights? How dare we take little phrases our of our 
Constitution and blatantly reinterpret their original provisions? God 
help us.

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William K. Medlin
Dev-plan associates
930 Kenneth Street
Moscow ID 83843
208/892-0148
dev-plan@moscow.com