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LETTER: The full text of the Second Amendment

I would like to recite the first part of the Second Amendment for recent letter writer Mary Louise Flanneary. “A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” Note: The people referring to every man woman and child, not an organized military. A militia is raised from the civil population to supplement a regular army.

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