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• The Bill of Rights is a literal and absolute document.
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• The militia of these free commonwealths, entitled and accustomed to their arms, when compared with any possible army, must be _tremendous and irresistable_.
  Who are the militia? _are they not ourselves_. Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms _each man against his own bosom_....
• Laura's mother: Well, I know what you're thinking, and the answer is yes.
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• However, on religious issues there can be little or no compromise.
  There is no position on which people are so immovable as their religious beliefs....
• The Second Amendment doesn't grant the right to keep and bear arms.
  You already have that right. The Constitution just prohibits the government from taking it away from you....