(urth) The Politics Of Gene Wolfe

[David Stockhoff]

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 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> 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.
>>>