Gang of 47: Professors oppose Second Amendment

Viking Phoenix ^ | March 28, 2000 | Sun Tzu's Newswire (STN 2000-021)

[Kevin Curry]

I thought I would abbreviate the list of signers by ending it with the signer having the most appropriate name: Carl T. Bogus

My interest was piqued when a friend informed me that signer Professor Akhil Reed Amar has been invited to bash the Second Amendment at the University of Utah Law School on October 25 at 7 PM. There is no reason to suspect that his apparent Middle-Eastern ancestry has anything to do with his anti-Second Amendment position, but because of his name his speech is likely to draw more interest than it would have prior to Septmeber 11.

Maybe the good FReepers of Utah should think about showing up to FReep the good Professor Amar (who was also one of Clinton's most vigorous defenders in academia during the impeachment debacle).

Note: I have no prior knowledge of "Viking Phoenix" or its other positions. I merely pulled this letter from its site. This same letter might have been pulled from any of a number of sites.

[untenured]

Our politics run the gamut.

LOL.

[TheBigB]

From far Left to faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar left :)

[Skibane]

Added to bang_list. (Click HERE to show most gun-related articles recently posted on FreeRepublic.com.)

[fleur-de-lis]

Like my daddy used to say, "Anyone can make a simple mistake, but it takes an advanced degree to really screw something up!"

[riverrunner]

It is obvious that these professor can not understand plan english. The Second Amendment is very clear. I do not need so body to tell me what it means. They think that you need a law degree to understand this that the problem. These professors can't think for them selfs.

[pabianice]

>>Our politics run the gamut.

You bet. All the way from Ted Kennedy to Sarah Brady. Thanks for the laugh.

Meanwhile, gun sales are up over 500%...

[freedomcrusader]

Our politics run the gamut.

Yes, some of us are Maoists, some Stalinists, some are Leninists, and some of us are adherents of Trotsky. Oh and yes, some of us are just out and out Fascists. And I musn't forget those of us who are devout followers of Sartre.

[Lurker]

"A well regulated militia being a necessity to a free State, the Right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed

Apparently plain English is beyond the ken of these 'professors'.

L

[Wm Bach]

Michael Bellesiles Professor of History Emory University

The same Bellisiles whose data suggeting minimal historical firearms ownership in the U.S. has been so publicly revealed as completely fabricated? The same professor, who even the Boston Globe has denounced as a charlatan? This is who Carl T. Bogus and friends are aligning themselves.

Birds of a feather...

[Leesylvanian]

If these "Bogus" professors and historians knew what they were talking about, they would understand the meaning of the term 'well-regulated' in the Second Amendment. It refers to the condition of the firearms maintained by the militia members, who were supposed to keep them in good operating order and well-sighted so they would be effective against all enemies, foreign and domestic. And, in spite of the events of September 11, I still believe our worst enemy is of the domestic variety, those who would destroy us from within.

[The Shootist]

Whether they are right or wrong isn't the issue. The Constitution no longer exists as a check upon the Federal Government. To paraphrase Newt Gingrich when asked why it took an Amendment to ban the sale of Alcohol but not Cannabis, he said, "Your right, but times have changed".

Even so august a conservative personage as Judge Bork is on the record as saying the 2nd Amendment does not confer a right of a individual to posess firearms.

It is not your grandfather's Constitution and the current crisis will ensure that when all is said and done it won't be our Constitution either.

Mourn the Republic
1776-2001

[lavaroise]

THe right to bear arms shall not be infringed. Period. Powers shall compete to serve the people, and people shall not compete to serve Powers. Government, in as much it is made of competing powers, is good, else it is bad. THe right to bear arms is the corner stone of the balance between the federal government and the local governments, down to the individual who govern himself or herself. A well regulated militia NEVER meant a militia with Federal Stamp Approval. It only meant that people governing themselves properly: i.e. not lunatics, criminals, retards, insanes, liberals and muslims and much more.

How hard is it to understand?

[Freedom2specul8]

It never ceases to amaze me..the ignorance of some who ''profess'' to be able to read and comprehend and yet they fail to. Those people are paid big bucks too.

[MissAmericanPie]

Who told these simple minded navel pickers that anyone cares what they "think". Gun ownership is common law by now and backed up by the Constitution. To register a gun is far too invasive of a persons privacy, to regulate what type of gun a person owns is to "infringe" on his right to be "well armed". They don't have a leg to stand on, any action they or the courts take to regulate arms is totalitarian and not acceptable.

[onedoug]

"But the law is well-settled that the Second Amendment permits broad and intensive regulation of firearms..."

Well, then it need to become unsettled.

I never have, nor will I ever register a single one of my weapons, any more than I have ever had to "register" to avail myself of any other right under the Bill Of Rights. And as the government, or this august body of professors disagrees, they can simply go to hell.

Register abortions, where by Constitutional fiat, the demise of a life is a fait accompli. Not the gun, where it is merely assumed.

[Shooter 2.5]

Three morons who can't understand English and one proven liar. They should all be fired for stupidity.

[steve-b]

Michael Bellesiles Professor of History Emory University

So, did you ever manage to dry out that "evidence" of yours? If so, where is it? Burned in a fire? Lost in the mail? The dog ate it?

[Born to Conserve]

Well, if "Akhil Reed Amar Southmayd Professor of Law Yale Law School" says Americans shouldn't have guns, that's good enough for me!

[LS]

I am a professor. If you can start a petition FOR the 2d Amendment, I'll be proud to have my name on it FIRST.