"nightjar" wrote in message
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On 24/09/2019 14:27, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Jeff Layman wrote:
The Americans are always said to have an advantage over us with their
"clear" Constitution. But, for example, nobody over there can seem to
agree on what "The Right to bear arms" actually means in practice. And,
in any case, even if the Founding Fathers were quite clear in their
intentions in 1776, would they still think the same way almost 250 years
later?

Quite. They'd have needed Turnip's crystal ball - or rather one which
actually worked - to predict assault rifles.


The English Bill of Rights also gives us the right to bear arms. Our
interpretation of how that works is rather different from that in the USA.

Because its nothing like as black and white as the US constitution
and is just another act of parliament. The US constitution isnt.