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To: padre35
....“we must repeal the embarrassing Second Amendment” tries to tie Heller to Roe?

George Will wrote that? When?

That's actually worse than Kathleen Parker's vitriolic fulmination against Christian conservatives the other day, that "Howard Dean was right".

36 posted on 11/23/2008 2:43:18 AM PST by lentulusgracchus ("Whatever." -- sinkspur)
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To: lentulusgracchus

http://www.textfiles.com/politics/GUNS/2nd_amen.gfw

“The Bill of Rights should be modified only with extreme reluctance but
America has an extreme crisis of gunfire. And impatience to deal with
it can cause less than scrupulous readings in the Constitution.

Whatever right the Second Amendment protects is not as important as it
was 200 years ago, when the requirements of self-defense and food-
gathering made gun ownership almost universal. But whatever the right
is, there it is.

The National Rifle Association is perhaps correct and certainly is
plausible in its “strong” reading of the Second Amendment protection
of private gun ownership. Therefore gun control advocates who want
to square their policy preferences with the Constitution should squarely
face the need to deconstitutionalize the subject by repealing the
embarrassing amendment.”


47 posted on 11/23/2008 4:45:17 AM PST by padre35 (Conservative in Exile...Rom 10.10..)
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