71. The Canadian Constitution makes no mention of any right to bear arms and Canadians are not as passionately attached to firearms as some Americans. 72. The greatest liberty for the greatest number calls for certain freedoms -- such as the freedom to bear arms -- to be curtailed. 73. The longstanding opinion of most courts has been that the Second Amendment guarantees only members of a militia, or National Guard, the right to bear arms. 74. The NRA makes much of the fact that the Constitution guarantees a right to bear arms. 75. The militias are a loose confederacy of paramilitary organizations that believe in armed rebellion, if necessary, to protect their right to bear arms. 76. The only well-known Democrat in the race, state Representative Bill Strain from the town of Abita Springs, ran as a supporter of the right to bear arms. 77. The NRA has convinced a lot of people that the right to bear arms is an absolute right. 78. The right to bear arms. 79. The Second Amendment, of course, deals with the right to bear arms. 80. The right of the individual to keep and bear arms was closely associated by the framers with the militia tradition that the American colonists brought with them from England. |