(urth) The Politics Of Gene Wolfe

[brunians at brunians.org]

You could say more.

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> I'm not sure why this isn't enough:
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> The intent of the second amendment is to allow the citizenry to defend
> themselves.
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> And that's all I'm going to say.
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> 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.
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>> .
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>>> On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 11:20 AM,  <brunians at brunians.org> wrote:
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>>>>>> 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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