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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Grainne who wrote (13855)11/25/1997 2:57:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
>>The
purpose of the Second Amendment
is to guarantee the states' ability to
maintain independent militias
composed of state residents
available to be called upon to
defend the country should its
security be threatened.

Imo, this is the sort of newspeak, the sort of Love is Hate kind of control through language, which makes a mockery out of any pretense to freedom of any kind. The amendment's text says "The people". What could be plainer? The bit about militias and a free state is, I am taught, an elaboration, not a condition.

>"The police problem is an
acute one not because of the
Fourth Amendment, but because of
the ease with which anyone can
acquire a pistol."

Here is where I see a misuse of logic, the sort of thing JFred would point out. The implication is made that civilian-owned pistols are an acute police problem. I'm on record as disagreeing with that premise. But what bugs me is that the categorical implication is drawn and not held up for questionong. Puts civil, well-intending gun spokesfolk in the unenviable position of either looking stubborn or rude to question this. I worry that with insidious stuff like this going around, the handgun (and ultimately any firearm at all) owners have lost thr PR war.

Re the Supreme Court's continuing promotion of the concept that the Second Amendment is not an individual right: regardless of how we feel about the guns themselves, we should all be deeply concerned about the high court taking such liberties with the core documents. This insinuation of "collective" vs. individual rights is corrosive, and it's working. As one gun-owning colleague has succinctly&trenchantly lamented: "The fix is in."

PS Where did you dig this little gem up? I may wish to lurk there.
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