(urth) The Politics Of Gene Wolfe

[Jerry Friedman]

From: John Watkins <john.watkins04 at gmail.com>:

>On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 5:34 PM, David Stockhoff <dstockhoff at verizon.net> wrote:
>>John Watkins wrote:
>>>On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 4:49 PM, Jerry Friedman wrote:

>>>>   I'm not going to get into a debate on the correct reading of the
>>>>>>Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, but I think it's
>>>>>> possible that Wolfe is participating in the decades-old debate on
>>>>>> American gun-ownership laws.  His apparent view isn't unusual or
>>>>>> surprising, but I think it's worth our discussion.
>>
>>>>> To the extent that Gene Wolfe expresses sympathy with the  view of the majority of
>>>>> Americans as to gun ownership, I agree that there's very little "unusual" or "surprising"
>>>>> about that.
>>>>  
>>>> What view is that, exactly?
>>
>>> That the right of the citizenry to possess weapons should be relatively 
>>unencumbered.
>>
>>Here's an opinion poll from 2008.
>>
>>http://www.gallup.com/poll/108394/americans-agreement-supreme-court-gun-rights.aspx
>>
>>I suspect Wolfe was in the 11% who thought gun laws should be less strict than they were in 2008.
>>
>>Jerry Friedman can't figure out how to get rid of those vertical lines.
>>


      
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