Quote Originally Posted by Alan View Post

jp1, if you want to change the topic to include every word in the Constitution, maybe another thread would be in order.
Those guys were pretty frugal with their words. Certainly compared to what lawyers do today. If they didn't mean every word in the amendment why put them there? And I'm not trying to discuss the whole constitution, just one amendment that doesn't even have very many words in it, even if you include the part the NRA wants to ignore.

Can we start chopping up the other amendments to take out the inconvenient parts too? This sounds like a fun game for the whole family!