[lbo-talk] the Bush style of clemency: love your gun

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sat Nov 29 18:57:59 PST 2008


On Nov 29, 2008, at 5:27 PM, Louis Kontos wrote:


> None of this (Little Bighorn or Warsaw) has anything to do with the
> Second Amendment. What's the argument here?

My friend Dan Lazare wrote a piece for Harper's some years ago, arguing that the latest Constitutional scholarship - for what it's worth, I don't put much stock in The Intent of the Founders (nor does Dan - he was tweaking liberal gun prohibitionists who are usually consitutional fetishists) - supports the gun fanatics' position. I.e., it's not about militias, but individual possession.

Oh, I see Harper's made the piece available on the web:

<http://harpers.org/archive/1999/10/0060684>

Doug



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