From: The Deviant <deviant@pooh-corner.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Aug 1996 17:25:29 +0800
To: "Timothy C. May" <tcmay@got.net>
Subject: Re: Imprisoned for Not Having a Gun?
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On Thu, 8 Aug 1996, Timothy C. May wrote:
> 
> Pro-gun fascism is just as bad a anti-gun fascism.
> 
> I do recall that the "you must have a gun" town had some exemptions for
> folks opposed to guns, blah blah, but it still is intensely revolting to me
> that any town could ever pass such a law. Much as I think being armed is
> useful and all that, allowing such a law to go unchallenged feeds into the
> same approach that tries to ban guns...if guns can be required, they can be
> banned. What part of the Second Amendment did they not understand? (Legal
> quibblers will perhaps say the Second applies to _Congress_ (as in
> "Congress shall make no law"), and not to states and communities. I
> disagree. Can a town restrict free speech just because it is not the
> Congress?)
> 
> --Tim May
> 

I agree with you.  I don't have anything against guns, but either
requiring them or disallowing them is just plain dumb.  It should be
noted that the Supreme Court's interpretaion of "Congress shall make no
law" is basicly "no lawmaking body that holds any jurisdiction shall make
no law"...

 --Deviant
There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable,
and praiseworthy ...
                -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"


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