[Alberta's Child]

True -- it's a "sound position" from a strictly legal standpoint.

But I'll stand by my original comment (with a slight modification to reflect yours). Anyone who wants to rid the country of gunowners -- even through perfectly legal means -- can't possibly be trusted when it comes to things like preventive detention, prior restraints of dangerous speech, etc.

I'd like to see Mr. Dershowitz spend five years getting run through every extra-legal process he's advocating here. Then we'll see how much enthusiasm he has for them.

[SJackson]

profiling, preventive detention, anticipatory mass inoculation, prior restraint of dangerous speech, targeted extrajudicial executions of terrorists and preemptive military action including full-scale preventive war.

Haven't read the book. Of the issues in the first paragraph, the devil is in the details, I might not have any problems with some level of most.