I am a strong proponent of the second amendment and I don't even own guns. I think that gun control has gone too far at points, much to the detriment of people's safety. Criminals will always have guns, so why do law abiding citizens need to be denied a right that George Washington even defended. People legally being denied their right to own a weapon worked poorly in D.C. Cops need to go back to being peace officers and quit arresting everyone.
--- On Tue, 7/1/08, Kevin Gutzman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> From: Kevin Gutzman <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: [VA-HIST] Rights talk
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Tuesday, July 1, 2008, 12:30 PM
> Henry Weincek says that mine was "rather a sweeping
> statement." Note,
> however, that I said that "MOST people who find
> themselves invoking rights
> do so for unsavory reasons." Thus, it wasn't a
> sweeping statement at all.
>
> For my take on the gun rights case, which I think was
> decided incorrectly
> (but about which the losing side's arguments were
> wrong, too), see
>
> http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2008/03/18/gun-control-the-second-amendment/
>
> Kevin Gutzman
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> Henry Wiencek <[log in to unmask]>
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> Prof. Gutzman writes: "My analysis is that most
> people who find themselves invoking rights do so for
> unsavory reasons (to
> get away with murdering an ex-wife, say, as in O.J.'s
> case), and that's
> what we should expect; after all, it's the
> political/moral minority that
> has to fall back on rights talk."
>
> That's a rather sweeping statement. Would you apply it
> to the gun rights
> folks who just won the big decision? Not a hostile
> question; merely
> asking.
>
> Henry Wiencek
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