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Submitted by FRANK L. JACKSON, Jan 19, 2008 06:48

Amendment [II]

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.

Amendment XIV
[1868]

Section 1--All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

To me this means that if one person or group of people, in the United States, have certain legal rights, than everyone in any other part of the United States should have the same rights. As far as drinking, driving, "and the right to keep and bear arms"
If a law enforcement agency has the right to something, than the individual should be afforded the same rights and restrictions.

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