Just wanted to share a cartoon just as relevent now as ever

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Ah, but then the lawyers got hold of the terms "no," "man," "shall," "ever," "debarred," "use," and "arms."

The meanings of "be," "the," and "of" were pretty much "settled language" and therefore immune to legal wrangling.

End of story....?

Or beginning of story...?

:evil:

Terry, 230RN, having presented this allegory, runs and hides.
 
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I hate to poop in the pool, but Jefferson never said that, nor did any of the other founding fathers. As a matter of fact, a shocking number of accepted 2nd Amendment quotes by the Founding Fathers; are spurious.

Don't believe me? Google "Spurious 2nd Amendment quotes by the Founding Fathers" and prepared to be very upset at what you thought was true. Don't get me wrong, I am not a gun-hating liberal.....I have an FFL and 71 guns...but when we bring forth our arguments before liberals we need to be accurate.

By the way, that famous quote credited Hitler is also spurious. He never said it.
 
This sentence comes from Thomas Jefferson's three drafts of the Virginia Constitution. The text does vary slightly in each draft:

First Draft: "No freeman shall ever be debarred the use of arms."[1]

Second Draft: "No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms [within his own lands or tenements]."[2]

Third Draft: "No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms [within his own lands or tenements]"[3]

This sentence does not appear in the Virginia Constitution as adopted.

https://www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/no-freeman-shall-be-debarred-use-arms-quotation
 
Interesting, I continue to learn! So a web site claims he never said it, but clearly he WROTE it. Picking nits.

I think I need to research who is running that website. Perhaps they are a bit left of center.....
 
Or that whole "don't believe everything you hear" thing, which is like 20x as relevant on the internet.
 
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