Quoting Curt Howland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thursday 26 June 2008, Robert D. Silvetz, M.D. was heard to say: >> What I find extraordinary if I don't need a permit for speaking why >> do I need a permit for carrying? >> >> Answer me that Supreme Court Fascists. > > That is entirely due to the attorney who argued the case. > > _HE_ gave them the benefit of licensing regardless of what the license > requires. > > When asked if licensing constituted infringement, he said "no". > > Another fight lost because of our "friends". L. Neil was prophetic. > > Curt- > Gods, you guys give up fast and easy! Did you REALLY think that one SCOTUS decision would be all it would take to make the other side say "Oh, well, guess we were wrong! See you on the shooting range!" and toddle off to the gun store to get tooled up?
Getting things turned around is like manouvering the _Queen Mary_---you can change her course, but she's too big and too heavy to turn on a dime, and expecting her to be as nimble as a ski boat's futile. 'Way too many people have huge emotional stakes in the way things are, or at worst, aren't actively discontented with it: "Oh, what do I need a gun or the right to carry one for? This isn't the Wild West!" and until we quit purging each other over trivial bits of doctrine and start finding ways to reach out to those people, we're doomed to frustration. I'd say that this is one step on a long journey, and at least isn't a setback. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.
