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TeddyR

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4. Completely agree
Tue Feb 9, 2016, 08:04 AM
Feb 2016

That any bill quoting anyone for any reason should be entirely accurate. Had to do a bit of digging to find which three quotes were incorrect and they were three that I'd never heard. I like this quote from Mason, which is included in the bill and as far as I know is accurate, made during Virginia's Convention to Ratify the Constitution in 1788: "I ask, Sir, what is the militia? It is the
whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them."



The bill itself appears to contain a lot of silly stuff though, like repealing background checks.

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