(urth) The Politics Of Gene Wolfe

David Stockhoff dstockhoff at verizon.net
Sat Jul 3 20:04:20 PDT 2010


Yes, that's not at all surprising. And indeed they are relatively 
unencumbered.

John Watkins wrote:
> That the right of the citizenry to possess weapons should be 
> relatively unencumbered.
>
> On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 5:34 PM, David Stockhoff 
> <dstockhoff at verizon.net <mailto:dstockhoff at verizon.net>> wrote:
>
>     What view is that, exactly?
>
>     John Watkins wrote:
>
>
>
>         On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 4:49 PM, Jerry Friedman
>         <jerry_friedman at yahoo.com <mailto:jerry_friedman at yahoo.com>
>         <mailto:jerry_friedman at yahoo.com
>         <mailto:jerry_friedman at yahoo.com>>> 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.
>
>            Jerry Friedman
>
>          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.
>          
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