For advice on use of assertion in argument see http://www.mcrkba.org/Screwtape2.html
Phil --- On Fri, 2/4/11, Henry E Schaffer <[email protected]> wrote: From: Henry E Schaffer <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Legal Scholars Are ?Best? Researchers on the Second Amendment?.Not To: [email protected] Date: Friday, February 4, 2011, 9:03 PM Charles Curley writes: > Legal Scholars Are ?Best? Researchers on the Second Amendment?.Not > > by Patrick J. Charles I guess it's interesting to see our list and my comment mentioned :-) > ... > 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: but I'm amazed that he refutes my mention of the (historical and present) meaning of "regulated" very simply by stating, "Schaffer's reference to a shotgun is mind-boggling". In science we refer to something like this as "proof by assertion." > 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. You have somewhat more self-control than I do. :-) The author has a longer treatment (which I haven't read) at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1705564 The 1792 National Militia Act, the Second Amendment, and Individual Militia Rights: A Legal and Historical Perspective Patrick J. Charles affiliation not provided to SSRN Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy, Vol. 9, No. 1, 2011 with a 1200+ word "Abstract". --henry schaffer _______________________________________________ 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.
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