guns & purses (was Re: guns & crime)

[JKSCHW at aol.com]

I am thinking of District Judge Sam Cummings, who just came out with 
ridiculous pro-gun decision, not on this issue. But the Fifth Circuit adheres 
to the view wveryone else adheres to. See United States v. Williams,  446 
F.2d 486, 487 (5th Cir. 1971); acord United States v. Broussard 80 f.3d 1025, 
1041 (5th Cir. 1041)(also ruling out a 9th amendment basis for the individual 
right to bear arms). 

In a message dated Wed, 18 Oct 2000  5:45:35 PM Eastern Daylight Time, martin 
schiller <mschiller at mac.com> writes:

<< JKSCHW at aol.com said on 10/18/00 11:45 AM


>Yeah. I follow those burly miscreants, the S.Ct. The opinion clearly 
>confined 
>the constitutional right to bear arms to "the militias the stateswere 
>expected to maintain and train." 307 US at 178. There is some further 
>discussionof the original meaning, which is intended to illuminate the text, 
>but even in a McReynolds opinion, the New Deal Court wasn't originalist. The 
>militias the states maintain and train ina  modern context are the National 
>Guard. There is not a federal court outside of certain judges in Texas who 
>will say different. --jks

But there are differences within the federal courts? These judges in 
Texas? That's interesting. A lot of the artists that I've grown up with 
have made home in that state, and for the brief period of time I spent 
there around '75, it felt like it had fairly spiritual roots. That rather 
surprised me as common wisdom in NE had been that Tejas was a foreign 
land. It was different. Around Austin, anyway. Rather more tolerant than 
I had expected - I can be a test.

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