From: "Joe Dees" <joedees@addall.com>
>Whyncha come clean and publicly admit what you, as an NRA member,
>must already know - that the emotional appeals to the second half
>of the second amendment are meant to inflame the faithful, but not
>to convince the courts? You know full well that the NRA has never
>contested a gun regulation on second amendment grounds - because
>they know that it's a losing judicial argument, since the courts
>will not recognize your organization's particular eisegesis as
>either relevant or valid.
Many gun laws have been contested Joe, the FACT is that the Supreme
Court has always ducked this issue.
The so called second half of the Second Amendment is actually the
first, the so called first part is conditional on the second.
Try reading U.S vs EMERSON for a federal judge's opinion.
Actually thanks to the efforts of a Federal judge, we may finally
have a resolution to this. By rejecting the government's case on
Second Amendment grounds in U.S. vs EMERSON, a case now headed for
the Supreme Court, we may finally get a ruling on this.
I predict the court will duck the issue once again.
By the way, the people you are collaborating with are not
interested in "sensible" or "reasonable" gun laws, they are
interested in eliminating all guns except for the military and
police.
That includes yours.
Todays AWAD also applies to you:
palilogy (puh-LIL-uh-jee) noun
The technique of repeating a word or phrase for emphasis. Also,
palillogy.
[From Greek palillogia recapitulation, equivalent to palin again,
back + -logia -logy.]
"What Highet calls a tricolon we may today call a palilogy, the
deliberate repetition of words and grammatical presentations, a
sort of parallelism in threes."
Bret L. Keeling, H.D. and `The Contest': archaeology of a Sapphic
gaze, Twentieth Century Literature, Jun 22, 1998.
This week's theme: words about words.
Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time. -Steven
Wright, comedian
(1955- )
Brian
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