<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> John Watkins <john.watkins04@gmail.com>:<br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">>On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 5:34 PM, David Stockhoff <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:dstockhoff@verizon.net" target="_blank" href="mailto:dstockhoff@verizon.net">dstockhoff@verizon.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>>>John Watkins wrote:<br>>>>On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 4:49 PM, Jerry Friedman wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="padding-left: 1ex; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="padding-left: 1ex; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;
border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);"><div class="im">>>>> I'm not going to get into a debate on the correct reading of the<br>>>>>Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, but I think it's<br>>>>> possible that Wolfe is participating in the decades-old debate on<br>>>>> American gun-ownership laws. His apparent view isn't unusual or<br>>>>> surprising, but I think it's worth our discussion.<br><br>>>> To the extent that Gene Wolfe expresses sympathy with the view of the majority of<br>>>> Americans as to gun ownership, I agree that there's very little "unusual" or "surprising"<br>>>> about that.<br>
<br>>> What view is that, exactly?<br><br>> That the right of the citizenry to possess weapons should be relatively
unencumbered.<br><br>Here's an opinion poll from 2008.<br><br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://www.gallup.com/poll/108394/americans-agreement-supreme-court-gun-rights.aspx">http://www.gallup.com/poll/108394/americans-agreement-supreme-court-gun-rights.aspx</a></span><br><br>I suspect Wolfe was in the 11% who thought gun laws should be less strict than they were in 2008.<br><br>Jerry Friedman can't figure out how to get rid of those vertical lines.<br>
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