Legal Scholars Are “Best” Researchers on the Second Amendment….Not by Patrick J. Charles
... But don’t take my word for the problems legal scholars have in deducting [sic] the meaning the Second Amendment, just look at this thread on a “well-regulated militia” at FireArmsRegProf. As I have addressed in my recent Northeastern article, a “well-regulated militia” is not merely an armed citizenry, and was instead a carefully balanced constitutional entity to defend the country and protect the lives, liberty, and property of all. Arms in the hands of an untrained, unvirtuous, undisciplined citizenry was not a “well-regulated militia,” but dangerous to society as a whole. In contrast, these legal scholars at FireArmsRegProf continue to miss the historical mark, and insert their modern viewpoints and biases into the equation. Henry E. Schaffer, professor emeritus at North Carolina State University, is completely off the mark: (links omitted) http://patrickjcharles.wordpress.com/2011/02/04/legal-scholars-are-best-researchers-on-second-amendment-not/ I shall well regulate myself and withhold comment for the nonce. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB _______________________________________________ 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 Please note that messages sent to this large list cannot be viewed as private. Anyone can subscribe to the list and read messages that are posted; people can read the Web archives; and list members can (rightly or wrongly) forward the messages to others.
