> If your responses come back all on one side or the other, or 90/10, then > you cannot, with any degree of integrity, claim or pretend to be holding > a conference that will "highlight the best scholarship on all sides of > the debates," or one in which "diverse viewpoints are represented," or > one that will "present viewpoints from across the spectrum," or one > that will "encourage scholars working in the largely unexplored middle > ground."
If you're going to do "affirmative action" to try to get a representative sample of viewpoints, I think it's a mistake to go for 50/50 on the issue of more controls/less controls. Don't you want a breakdown that "resembles" the breakdown among 2nd Amendment scholars (i.e., about 75/25 in favor of the individual rights/not-very-individual rights views)? Even if the organizers of the conference are just generally unaware of the state of the scholarship and are inviting people blindly, it seems unlikely that they could achieve 90/10 in favor of the not-very-individual rights view without going to some considerable effort to make it that way. Peter _______________________________________________ To post, send message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/firearmsregprof
