No, I'm saying that there is virtually no relationship between gun ownership and political freedom. Even with high rates of gun ownership, I hardly see many of the 2d amendment advocates in this country as exemplars of either personal liberty or political justice; many seem to think the only part of the Bill of Rights that counts is the 2d Amendment and tend to ignore the other 9 (especially the 1st, 4th, and 5th) and have active antipathy to the 14th, 15th, 16th, and 19th.
emc
"Being forced to write comments actually improves code, because it is easier to fix a crock than to explain it. " —G. Steele
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Perhaps "many" gun owners seem, to you, to be defenders of the 2nd Amendment and ignorers of the rest of the Bill of Rights, but I don't see the same thing. Every single gun owner with whom I have a relationship close enough to know they own guns, with the single exception of my stepfather (and by extension my mother), is a dedicated defender of the Bill of Rights in its entirety against all comers. I'm not talking about three or four people, either — I'm talking about dozens, and add to that the number of people I know who intend, at some point, to own guns, or have at some point owned guns, and the results are similar: all of them (this time with no exceptions) are quite convinced of the importance of every Amendment in the Bill of Rights. Any quibbles with it in these groups have arisen on the grounds that some of the phrasing has opened loopholes for Congresscritters and Supreme Court Justices to play silly buggers with the spirit of the law.
If you refer to people like former Attorney General John Ashcroft, I think we can dispense with the delusion that he supported the 2nd Amendment to the paltry degree that he did for any reasons other than political expediency.
I love your sig block about code commenting, by the way.
| print substr("Just another Perl hacker", 0, -2); |
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