(urth) The Politics Of Gene Wolfe

[brunians at brunians.org]

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> I support the right of the Guild to fire its guns each year on
> Catherine's Day.
>
> John Watkins wrote:
>> I'm not sure what this really has to do with Wolfe.  (And I know I've
>> had my digressions too.)
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 10:01 AM, David Stockhoff
>> <dstockhoff at verizon.net <mailto:dstockhoff at verizon.net>> wrote:
>>
>>     I'm not sure why this isn't enough:
>>
>>     The intent of the second amendment is to allow the citizenry to
>>     defend themselves.
>>
>>
>>     And that's all I'm going to say.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>     brunians at brunians.org <mailto:brunians at brunians.org> wrote:
>>
>>         It is what the framers thought.
>>
>>         If you don't believe me you should read the Federalist and the
>>         anti-Federalist.
>>
>>         Or just, you know, continue to believe what you prefer to
>> believe.
>>
>>         .
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>             On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 11:20 AM,  <brunians at brunians.org
>>             <mailto:brunians at brunians.org>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>                         I guess I'm a moderate conservative or
>>                         libertarian on the issue.
>>                         I think the Second Amendment creates an
>>                         individual right and
>>                         that that individual right clearly isn't meant
>>                         to cover every
>>                         conceivable form of weapon.
>>
>>
>>                     I would argue that the intent was self-evidently
>>                     for it to cover every
>>                     conceivable type of weapon.
>>
>>
>>                 Indeed, the most powerful weapons available in the
>>                 eighteenth century
>>                 were
>>                 warships, many of which were privately owned, as was
>>                 much artillery in
>>                 the
>>                 sense of crew-served weapons.
>>
>>                 The intent of the second amendment is to allow the
>>                 citizenry to more
>>                 readily defend themselves against the government, when
>>                 this becomes
>>                 necessary, as it inevitably does.
>>
>>
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