Aravosis: What is it with you people? Repeal the Second Amendment? I mean, I'm glad you're reading the article, but it's like mass hypnosis or something. The article never even suggests repealing it.
At 08:31 PM 10/17/2002 -0700, you wrote:
Ward Dorrity: About your contention that it's time to repeal the Second Amendment to the Constitution. I will not bother you with things like reason, facts, history, philosophy or moral arguments. It has been my experience that folks like yourself lack the price of admission to any sort of reasonable discussion regarding an individuals right to self defense. Yeah, I know, it s a first-principles sort of argument that liberal gun-grabbers always lose. I haven't got the time or the patience to try and sort my way through the Disneyland of logical fallacies and name calling to which leftists, liberals and other soft-core fascists invariably resort.
So let me lay it out for you in terms that you cannot fail to understand. The repeal of the Second Amendment will be the proximate, but not the only cause of the next American Civil War. Remember the phrase, "after a long train of abuses?" You know - from that pesky old document the Founding Fathers wrote? Repeal of the Second Amendment will be the last car in that train for many of us.
But do us all a favor, will you, John? That is, if you have the stones to live your convictions. Please be one of the first to show up at my door to demand that my family and I hand over our weapons. That's when we'll all understand what lies at the end of every statist argument - the barrel of a gun. As a man of reason and good will, I'll never start a fight. But I've got the training, the means, the motivation and scariest of all - to folks like you, anyway - the moral certainty to finish one.
Ward Dorrity
September 11, 2001
Never forgive. Never forget.
I'm not saying that we need to ban all guns or repeal the entire Second Amendment, but using the defense of the Second Amendment as an excuse to not search available gun databases for terrorists?
The title is wrong. So is the author, but he didn't call for repeal anywhere in this article.