----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Sloan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 2:09 PM
Subject: Re: 2nd Amendment
> Dean Forster wrote:
>
> > this is all beside the point that you don't have to be
> > part of the militia at all. the wording is very plain
> > and straightforward: (from the same link above)
> >
> > "These arguments all begin from an unexamined premise:
> > that the Constitution and its Bill of Rights can be
> > read in bits and pieces so that each provision becomes
> > a discrete passage. Such a reading of the first amendment
> > would have legislators proclaiming that individual states
> > can pass laws abridging freedom of speech, since the
> > amendment ties its prohibitions of government action to
> > Congress.
>
> Free speech isn't absolute, either. There's the old cliche
> about yelling "Fire!" in a crowded theater.
Does that mean that when standing in a crowd of armed persons, you cannot
yell "FIRE" then either? <G>
xponent
oops, wrong key
rob
