gryphon
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Decided that it was time for me to get serious about my own personal studies. Decided a good place to start would be in my own back yard, look at the Constitution and the Bill of Right. So I went to the library and started getting books on one of my most passionate subjects, the Second Amendment(that's as good a place to start as any, right?)
Book titled:
The Militia and the Right to Arms, or How the second amendment fell silent
by Uviler and Merkel.
Now, I have not read Bellesilles(sp?) book, but this one must rank right up there with that as far as junk goes(my opinion, you can read it for yourself and determine).
The book starts out in the introduction with such tantalizing reading as:
"While the second amendment surely did once speak loudly and clearly to the issue of arms in private hands, we will conclude from an examination of langauge of the provisions, as understood by the ratifiers, and from the history of the militia since the eighteenth century, the the 'right of the people' has become a vacant and meaningless sequence of words."
Some other interesting tidbits:
"While many of us regard guns in private hands as the scourge of our times, and favor government imposition on controls and punitive deterrence of all sorts..."
"The gun people and their friends..."
Couldn't get much past that. Essentially they are trying to prove the 2A is no longer valid since we don't have militias like we had in 1700's and 1800's.
Book titled:
The Militia and the Right to Arms, or How the second amendment fell silent
by Uviler and Merkel.
Now, I have not read Bellesilles(sp?) book, but this one must rank right up there with that as far as junk goes(my opinion, you can read it for yourself and determine).
The book starts out in the introduction with such tantalizing reading as:
"While the second amendment surely did once speak loudly and clearly to the issue of arms in private hands, we will conclude from an examination of langauge of the provisions, as understood by the ratifiers, and from the history of the militia since the eighteenth century, the the 'right of the people' has become a vacant and meaningless sequence of words."
Some other interesting tidbits:
"While many of us regard guns in private hands as the scourge of our times, and favor government imposition on controls and punitive deterrence of all sorts..."
"The gun people and their friends..."
Couldn't get much past that. Essentially they are trying to prove the 2A is no longer valid since we don't have militias like we had in 1700's and 1800's.
