From: Ryan M Gill (rmgill@mindspring.com)
Date: Fri Sep 13 2002 - 13:50:17 PDT
At 11:01 AM -0400 9/13/02, Steve Grammont wrote:
>John,
>
>>The framers could never have envisioned Television, the
>>net......radio........using your logic on the 2nd Amendment.....free
>>speech will have to be regulated
>
>You missed my point entirely. I said it can be argued more than one way,
>and that is obviously true otherwise we would all be owning Stingers and
>tactical nuclear weapons if we wanted to. Those who think that the 2nd
>Amendment should cover anything and everything do not understand how the
>Founding Fathers set up the Constitution. They set it up to be
One supreme court justice raised this very issue as a side comment in
an opinion. He even questioned the legality of banning such things
from civil ownership.
>[snip]
>Do I want the 2nd Amendment to remain interpreted pretty much as it has
>been? You bet. But I am not blind enough to see that there is more than
>one way to interpret it. I just hope the courts continue to (generally)
>favor my point of view instead of the gun control freak's.
I think its getting better. After all, even Barbara Boxer called for
Airline pilots to have sidearms if they choose. Hows that for role
reversal?
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