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To: Grainne who wrote (100)	5/26/1998 1:26:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (1) of 174

I don't see a causal connection between the Second Amendment and the militia movement. You are implying it's there, if I'm reading you right. If you can't expressly prove that, it is incumbent on you to offer a retraction. The Second Amendment is not about empowering bands of marginal bandits who call themselves "militia" because it's a cool word. That is rather like stating that driver's licenses lead straight to the validation of biker gangs. Further extending the logic in the suggested direction - the way to deal with our biker problem is to wipe out driver's licenses. The Second Amendment, and civilian gun ownership, isn't about militias. It isn't about an ill-defined "collective" right. The framers of the Constitution were stout and ardent individualists. When they said "people" they meant "participants", not "community". Those who are trying to twist the text of the Bill of Rights into a communitarian document are either stupid or bear a hidden agenda. I rather doubt the first. So I ask you - if you want to take the Second Amendment on, let's leave the disenfranchised "militia" out of it. Let's not lend credence to the subverters of the word "people". On a personal basis, you're unconditionally entitled to dislike the Second Amendment. But on the national level, it is the basis of law until repealed. Finally, when I try to talk about gun ownership, we often get sidetracked into a discussion about violent crime. I think it's pretty manipulative to put handgun ownership into the same basket with the long-running theater of deadly violence we see splashed up all over the newsmedia. Indeed, I accuse the media of deliberately associating the two in a long-range effort to influence the opinion of the people. When's the last time you saw a balanced, friendly treatment of gun ownership or gun sport in the news or the paper? A long time, I'm sure. If we're gonna talk about this topic at all, you and I both need to adhere to certain rules of honorable conduct. These include the avoidance of manipulating a topic by drawing unsubstantiated parallels with things held universally obscene.

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