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Politics : Did Slick Boink Monica? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Surething who wrote (9193)	3/2/1998 1:33:00 AM
From: Lady Lurksalot	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20981

Surething, I've been giving considerable thought to the Second Amendment, the one about the right to keep and bear arms. I thought that you offered a very plausible interpretation of the "bear" part, and I would like to offer up a plausisble interpretation of the "keep" part. In those days, they used pilories and stocks as means of punishment, which devices are widely regarded as cruel and unusual by today's standards. It seems to me that the "keep" part could possibly refer to the right to keep arms out of the pilories and stocks or at the least to prevent amputations of these arms, should the pilories and stocks cut circulation to a dangerous degree. What do you think of that as an explanation? Holly