Steve writes:
>Kates is right.
>
>I say every chance I get that the 2d Amendment is not a left-right
>issue.

  I agree with you - but enough people treat it as left-right, that I'm
afraid it has become very much a left-right issue.

>Was Warren Burger left?
>
>Is Sandy Levinson right?
>
>Not.
>
>I myself came around to the individual rights view more-or-less kicking 
>and screaming, but I have not adopted any other quaint philosophies 
>commonly held by people who call themselves conservative, and I see no 
>advantage to individual rights proponents in attaching that label.

  There are a lot of individuals examples breaking the left-right
stereotype (including Don Kates, whose work in voter registration in the
South surely isn't right-wing) but what about the masses that follow the
left-right stereotype.  I'm thinking of the Million Mothers and all of
the Democratic Party Activists I know. Also, the NRA has been
demonstrating that this is left-right.

  I'm afraid that "it shouldn't be" is true - but "it is not" isn't.
-- 
--henry schaffer

Ob ConLaw: - I'm too tired to argue how this type of socio-politic
dynamic can affect both the interpretation of the law. and the law (in a
longer time frame).
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