The Politics Of Gene Wolfe

John Watkins · 03 Jul 2010, 21:38 · from 2010-July.txt.gz

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From: john.watkins04 at gmail.com (John Watkins)
Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2010 17:38:11 -0400
Subject: (urth) The Politics Of Gene Wolfe
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That the right of the citizenry to possess weapons should be relatively
unencumbered.

On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 5:34 PM, David Stockhoff <dstockhoff at verizon.net>wrote:

> What view is that, exactly?
>
> John Watkins wrote:
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>> On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 4:49 PM, Jerry Friedman <jerry_friedman at yahoo.com<mailto:
>> jerry_friedman at yahoo.com>> wrote:
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>>    I'm not going to get into a debate on the correct reading of the
>>    Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, but I think it's
>>    possible that Wolfe is participating in the decades-old debate on
>>    American gun-ownership laws.  His apparent view isn't unusual or
>>    surprising, but I think it's worth our discussion.
>>
>>    Jerry Friedman
>>
>>  To the extent that Gene Wolfe expresses sympathy with the  view of the
>> majority of Americans as to gun ownership, I agree that there's very little
>> "unusual" or "surprising" about that.
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