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- From: tzs@carson.u.washington.edu (Tim Smith)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion,misc.legal
- Subject: Re: Blackmun calls the Roe v. Wade dividing line "arbitrary"
- Date: 26 Jan 1993 05:58:50 GMT
- Organization: University of Washington School of Law, Class of '95
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- kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy) writes:
- >Gee, an anti-gun-control nut crawls out of the woodwork. The Net is surprised..
- >
- >>There's another rule of statutory construction called _find out what the words
- >>mean_. If you apply this to "well-regulated militia" you will find out that
- >>nearly everyone in the NRA, for example, is a member, ...
- >
- >They may (arguably) qualify under "militia", maybe, but what about the "well-
- >regulated" part? And what about the "necessary to the security of a free
-
- You appear to be assuming that "well-regulated" means "under the control of
- the government." This is not correct -- "well-regulated" means approximately
- "functioning well."
-
- There was a Supreme Court case from the 1930's that contained a good historical
- examination of the meaning of the Second Amendment. I don't have the
- cite handy, but it should not be hard to find.
-
- You are also incorrect in assuming that I am anti-gun-control. However, just
- because I would like to see a lot of people who currently have guns not be
- able to have them, does not mean that I am going to support misreading
- the Constitution. It is incorrect to interpret an attack on faulty
- statements as an attack on the position those faulty statements were
- trying to support.
-
- --Tim Smith
-