The Politics Of Gene Wolfe

David Stockhoff · 02 Jul 2010, 14:06 · from 2010-July.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2010 10:06:44 -0400
Subject: (urth) The Politics Of Gene Wolfe
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I support the right of the Guild to fire its guns each year on 
Catherine's Day.

John Watkins wrote:
> I'm not sure what this really has to do with Wolfe.  (And I know I've 
> had my digressions too.)
>
> On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 10:01 AM, David Stockhoff 
> <dstockhoff at verizon.net <mailto:dstockhoff at verizon.net>> wrote:
>
>     I'm not sure why this isn't enough:
>
>     The intent of the second amendment is to allow the citizenry to
>     defend themselves.
>
>
>     And that's all I'm going to say.
>
>
>
>
>     brunians at brunians.org <mailto:brunians at brunians.org> wrote:
>
>         It is what the framers thought.
>
>         If you don't believe me you should read the Federalist and the
>         anti-Federalist.
>
>         Or just, you know, continue to believe what you prefer to believe.
>
>         .
>
>
>          
>
>             On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 11:20 AM,  <brunians at brunians.org
>             <mailto:brunians at brunians.org>> wrote:
>                
>
>                         I guess I'm a moderate conservative or
>                         libertarian on the issue.
>                         I think the Second Amendment creates an
>                         individual right and
>                         that that individual right clearly isn't meant
>                         to cover every
>                         conceivable form of weapon.
>                                  
>
>                     I would argue that the intent was self-evidently
>                     for it to cover every
>                     conceivable type of weapon.
>                            
>
>                 Indeed, the most powerful weapons available in the
>                 eighteenth century
>                 were
>                 warships, many of which were privately owned, as was
>                 much artillery in
>                 the
>                 sense of crew-served weapons.
>
>                 The intent of the second amendment is to allow the
>                 citizenry to more
>                 readily defend themselves against the government, when
>                 this becomes
>                 necessary, as it inevitably does.
>                      
>
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