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To: bentway who wrote (336583)	5/6/2007 9:44:45 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1578199

Scholars who agree with gun opponents and support the collective rights view say the professors on the other side may have been motivated more by a desire to be provocative than by simple intellectual honesty. “Contrarian positions get play,” Carl T. Bogus, a law professor at Roger Williams University, wrote in a 2000 study of Second Amendment scholarship. “Liberal professors supporting gun control draw yawns.” I am inclined to think that the above is his motivation. Nonetheless, the USSC with its conservative leaning is likely to second him. Still, nine federal appeals courts around the nation have adopted the collective rights view, opposing the notion that the amendment protects individual gun rights. The only exceptions are the Fifth Circuit, in New Orleans, and the District of Columbia Circuit. The Second Circuit, in New York, has not addressed the question. Linda Singer, the District of Columbia’s attorney general, said the debate over the meaning of the amendment was not only an academic one. “It’s truly a life-or-death question for us,” she said. “It’s not theoretical. We all remember very well when D.C. had the highest murder rate in the country, and we won’t go back there.” What's really noteworthy about this article is that we have another example where gun control works.