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<DIV>>James, we don't disagree.</DIV>
<DIV>>As it sits in today's political balance, however, with all the
compromises</DIV>
<DIV>>of history that have led us to this point<BR>>(including the cases
you refer to and the Fourteenth Amendment),</DIV>
<DIV>>I think that DC v. Heller was just about on-target.<BR><BR><FONT
face=Arial size=2>Not to nit-pick, John, but the 14th amendment was an actual
amendment to the constitution. It explicitly altered the rights of the states to
make laws in very limited areas. It was possibly the last time we resolved
a constitutional crisis "by the rules" (at the national level at
least).</FONT></DIV>
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