In response to Joe Hall, here are quotes from Cass Sunstein and Mark Lloyd. Cass Sunstein in his own words, “The Second Amendment seems to specify its own purpose, which is to protect the ‘well regulated’ Militia.” If that’s the purpose of the Second Amendment (as Burger believed), then we might speculate it safeguards not individual rights but federalism. In his book “Animal Rights: Current Debates and New Directions,” he said, “We could even grant animals a right to bring suit without insisting that animals are persons, or that they are not property. A state could certainly confer rights on a pristine area, or a painting, and allow people to bring suit on its behalf, without therefore saying that that area and that painting may not be owned. It might, in these circumstances, seem puzzling that so many people are focusing on the question of whether animals are property. We could retain the idea of property but also give animals far more protection against injury or neglect of their interests.” (Oxford University Press, USA, 2004). P. 11
Mark Lloyd in 2006 in his book “It should be clear by now my focus here is not freedom of speech or the press. This freedom is all too often an exaggeration. At the very least blind references to freedom of speech or the press serve as a distraction from the critical examination of other communication policies. “Pressure, pressure, pressure, we need to apply pressure and to direct that pressure not at government but through government at true opposition –the broadcaster.”
These are from Thomas Jefferson: “Laws that forbid the carrying of arms disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.
“The following [addition to the Bill of Rights] would have pleased me: The people shall not be deprived or abridged of their right to speak, to write, or otherwise to publish anything but false facts affecting injuriously the life, liberty or reputation of others, or affecting the peace of the [United States] with foreign nations.”
You don’t have to lie to make these guys look bad, they do it on their own.
Bryan Newell
Shawnee
