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Caroline Kennedy - Citizens shouldnt have handguns!
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PocketProtector642
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Post subject: Caroline Kennedy - Citizens shouldnt have handguns! Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 10:19 am |
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From an email blast from http://www.gunlaws.com/. (you can disregard the apologies in this email. He is refering to a previous email where he misquoted. i tried to bold the important stuff)
Quote: Urgent -- Page Nine Correction Re: Caroline Kennedy
Possibly the greatest error in the history of Page Nine just occurred in the lead story on Caroline Kennedy. In relying on a usually reliable attorney -- whose anonymity is now saving his sorry butt -- I inaccurately conveyed an element of Ms. Kennedy's book, In Our Defense, The Bill of Rights in Action (Ellen Alderman and Caroline Kennedy, 1991, William Morrow & Co.). The attorney, whose anonymity I intend to maintain, corrects himself:
"In accusing Caroline Kennedy of shoddy scholarship, I committed shoddy scholarship.
"The quote, 'the right to keep and bear handguns is not guaranteed by the Second Amendment,' does not appear in U.S. v. Miller, but (absurd as it is) it does appear in Quilici v. Morton Grove, which Kennedy was citing in her book. She was right, and I was wrong.
"Clearly, Kennedy is hostile to the right of individual citizens to keep and bear arms, but she is not guilty of making up a quote, as I alleged.
"I apologize for my unforgivable error."
The book's discussion of the right to keep and bear arms rests on an examination of the 1982 Morton Grove gun ban, an act by a small town, supported by courts, that denied its citizens rights they had always had beforehand. That lower-court episode is considered by gun-rights advocates as one of the worst blots on the Second Amendment, but Kennedy and Alderman saw it as a proper stage to examine the issue. It would be hard to characterize their position as anything but hostile to the idea that mere citizens have the right to defend themselves with sidearms. The quotation the authors hinge their discussion upon -- inaccurately attributed in my report but accurately quoted -- is completely disparaging of a citizen's right to have or use handguns (and indeed, the Miller case makes no mention of handguns):
"Under the controlling authority of the only Supreme Court case to address the scope of the Second Amendment, U.S. v. Miller, the court concluded that 'the right to keep and bear handguns is not guaranteed by the Second Amendment.'"
The erroneous details were published online a few hours ago. I've made every effort to correct this as swiftly as possible. I apologize for letting that slip through, and it serves as proof once again that, despite the rumors, I'm only human.
Sincerely, Alan Korwin
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_________________ Proud owner of 2 wonderful SGH holsters. "If man will not work, he shall not eat" (2 Th 3:14) "If you don't have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one" -Jesus (Luke 22:36)
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Macx
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Post subject: Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 11:29 am |
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You certainly aren't suggesting that a Kennedy would be elitist and utterly detatched from the well being of non-royalty, say it ain't so?
_________________ Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a
lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become
a law unto himself; it invites anarchy .” Olmstead v. U.S., 277 U.S. 438
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Scott Hughes
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Post subject: Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 1:10 pm |
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I was hoping we would see the end of "Camelot" by attrition if nothing else. Now likely as not we'll have to deal with this one.
We need a barf emoticon.
_________________ “Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.”
- Winston Churchill -
WITHOUT LIBERTY THERE IS NO FREEDOM
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RLS59
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Post subject: Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 1:16 pm |
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We need a barf emoticon. [/quote]
+1
_________________ "I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, and I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them." John Wayne (The Shootist)
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Carbide Insert
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Post subject: Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 1:39 pm |
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Joined: Sat Aug 19, 2006 11:36 am Posts: 760 Location: Hutchinson, MN
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Hm, Can't manage to post the emoticon I want...
_________________ It's not always easy these days to tell which of our two major political parties is the Stupid Party and which is the Evil Party...
But it remains true that from time to time they collaborate on something that's both stupid and evil and call it bipartisanship. -Thomas E. Woods Jr.
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SultanOfBrunei
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Post subject: Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 2:04 pm |
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Scott Hughes wrote: We need a barf emoticon.
Close enough?
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Scott Hughes
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Post subject: Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 2:40 pm |
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_________________ “Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.”
- Winston Churchill -
WITHOUT LIBERTY THERE IS NO FREEDOM
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