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Bill Levinson <wlevinson@NOSPAM.stentorian.com> wrote in
news:3%Jyd.11676$Z47.2946@newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net: 

> I support the right of gays to OWN firearms 

Who doesn't, Shitorian?

> even if they
> are not in the Armed Forces, you gay-bashing Fascist.

But the question now is - do you support the right of gays to 
serve in the National Guard, which would provide them with a 
true Second Amendment rkba when on active duty?

Why can't you admit you hate gays and so does the NRA and the 
Republican Party?  We know it; I'd just like to hear you 
admit it, Goebels-wannabe.

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Mr. GEORGE MASON. Mr. Chairman, a worthy member has asked 
who are the militia, if they be not the people of this 
country, and if we are not to be protected from the fate of 
the Germans, Prussians, &c., by our representation? I ask, 
Who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people, 
except a few public officers. But I cannot say who will be 
the militia of the future day. If that paper on the table 
gets no alteration, the militia of the future day may not 
consist of all classes, high and low, and rich and poor; but 
they may be confined to the lower and middle classes of the 
people, granting exclusion to the higher classes of the 
people. If we should ever see that day, the most ignominious 
punishments and heavy fines may be expected. Under the 
present government, all ranks of people are subject to 
militia duty. Under such a full and equal representation as 
ours, there can be no ignominious punishment inflicted. But 
under this national, or rather consolidated government, the 
case will be different. The representation being so small 
and inadequate, they will have no fellow-feeling for the 
people. They may discriminate people in their own 
predicament, and exempt from duty all the officers and 
lowest creatures of the national government. If there were a 
more particular definition of their powers, and a clause 
exempting the militia from martial law except when in actual 
service, and from fines and punishments of an unusual 
nature, then we might expect that the militia would be what 
they are. But, if this be not the case, we cannot say how 
long all classes of people will be included in the militia. 
There will not be the same reason to expect it, because the 
government will be administered by different people. We know 
what they are now, but know not how soon they may be 
altered.

The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption 
of the Federal Constitution [Elliot's Debates, Volume 3] 
Monday, June 16, 1788. pp 425-426

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Yours truly,

The Lone Weasel