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wish secretary-nominee rice had a law degree;
although this topic wasn't explicitly included in senator specter's
'promise-letter.'
Slouching towards Gomorrah,
1996
After stating that, "The real argument against severe gun control is one of
policy, not constitutionality," and "Gun control shifts the equation in favor of
the criminal. Gun control proposals are nothing more than a modern liberal
suggestion that government, which is unable to protect its citizens, make sure
those citizens cannot defend themselves,"
in a footnote on page 166, Judge Bork writes that "the Supreme Court has
consistently ruled that there is no individual right to own a firearm. The
Second Amendment was designed to allow states to defend themselves against a
possibly tyrannical national government. Now that the federal government has
stealth bombers and nuclear weapons, it is hard to imagine what people would
need to keep in the garage to serve that purpose.''
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"Well, it's a little ambiguous. It sounds in the first part as
if it's, like, a right to join the militia, have a militia. And it sounds, in the second part, like an individual right to bear arms. ...I've always viewed it as a militia amendment, but there is an argument about that. I have to admit, it's not entirely clear... I don't know what-- today, I don't know how you would solve the question of what arms you're entitled to bear. Now that the Feds have nuclear weapons and stealth bombers, I don't know what it is you have to keep in the garage to fight them off." --Robert Bork, on CNN's_Larry King Live,_July 21, 1994 **************************
"[The Second Amendment's] intent was to guarantee the right of
states to form militia, not for individuals to bear arms." [Robert Bork, quoted
in "Bork Says State Gun Laws Constitutional," Los Angeles Times, March 15, 1989,
Part 2 pg 5]
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"[The] National Rifle Association is always arguing that the Second
Amendment determines the right to bear arms. But I think it really is the
people's right to bear arms in a militia. The NRA thinks it protects their
right to have Teflon-coated bullets. But that's not the original
understanding. -Robert H. Bork, former Federal Appeals Court Judge
(Distinguished Lecture Series, UC Irvine, 3/14/89; source:
HandgunFree.org)
******************************** [I]t is naive to suppose that the [Supreme] Court's present difficulties
could be cured by appointing Justices determined to give the Constitution its
true meaning," to work at "finding the law" instead of reforming society. The
possibility implied by these comforting phrases does not exist.... History can
be of considerable help, but it tells us much too little about the specific
intentions of the men who framed, adopted and ratified the great clauses. The
record is incomplete, the men involved often had vague or even conflicting
intentions, and no one foresaw, or could have foreseen, the disputes that
changing social conditions and outlooks would bring before the Court.
Robert Bork, Fortune, December 1968 p.140-1. *****************************
senator specter voted against ccw and in favor of gunshow 'loophole'
closure.
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Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 23:14:44 -0600
From: "Joseph E. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Dr. Condi Rice is a "Second Amendment absolutist." To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Eat your heart out, U.N. [2004] http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/NEWSV5/storyV5RICE1117W.htm During the bombings of the summer of 1963, her father and other neighborhood men guarded the streets at night to keep white vigilantes at bay. Rice said her staunch defense of gun rights comes from those days. She has argued that if the guns her father and neighbors carried had been registered, they could have been confiscated by the authorities, leaving the black community defenseless. [2000] http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/will080700.asp A PLEASANTLY meandering conversation over lunch in San Francisco last summer, Condoleezza Rice, then still provost of Stanford but already unofficially what she now is officially, George W. Bush's senior foreign policy adviser, was asked her thoughts about gun control. "I am," she answered crisply, "a Second Amendment absolutist." Growing up in Birmingham, Ala., in the early 1960s, when racial tensions rose, there were, she said, occasions when the black community had to exercise its right to bear arms in self-defense, becoming, if you will, a well-regulated militia. ****************************************** Professor Joseph Olson; J.D., LL.M. Hamline University School of Law St. Paul, Minnesota 55104-1284 tel. (651) 523-2142 fax. (651) 523-2236 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |
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