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From: "GOA Media Release" <media@gunowners.org>
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Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 3:42 PM
Subject: Press Release: Iraqi Constitution Needs a Second Amendment


> For Immediate Release
> June 6, 2003
> Contact: Ellie McDaniel
> 703-321-8585
>
> Iraqi Constitution Needs a Second Amendment
>
> (Springfield, VA) -- Gun Owners of America Executive Director, Larry
> Pratt, called for those drafting a constitution for the new Iraqi
> government to include an iron-clad protection of the individual right
> to keep and bear arms.
>
> "The U.S. administration in Iraq has already taken a good first step
> by allowing Iraqi citizens to own fully-automatic, military AK-47
> assault rifles," said Pratt.
>
> "The next step is to lock this policy into the new constitution. The
> clause might read: 'The right to self protection and national defense
> being an inalienable, God-given right, the right of the people to
> keep and bear arms shall not be infringed by any law or regulation
> whatsoever for any firearm in use by any military establishment.'
>
> "This would bring into 21st century language the meaning of the U.S.
> Second Amendment to the Constitution," Pratt concluded.
>
> -GOA-
>
> -----------------------------------
>
> Larry Pratt is the Executive Director for Gun Owners of
> America, a national gun lobby with over 350,000 members located at
> 8001 Forbes Place, Springfield, VA 22151 and at
> http://www.gunowners.org on the web.
>
> Either Larry Pratt or another GOA spokesman is available for
> press interviews or talk shows.

[Gray Peterson]

instead of inalienable god given right, they would probably go for something like "right given by Allah" or something.

[Standing Wolf]

I'd be more inclined to refer to an "inherent, inalienable human" right, but would I quibble? No. The right of people to keep and bear arms in defense against tyrants, criminals, and terrorists must always and everywhere be defended.

[mons meg]

As was brought up in a previous thread, I ain't holdin' my breath...