> :> The tenth amendment certainly doesn't look like a description of the
> :> rights of individuals to me.  Nor do any of them look to me like
> :> descriptions of absolute rights.  Even if the second amendment guarantees
> :> the rights of individuals to bear arms, it does not follow that it gives
> :> *any* individual the right to bear *any* arms at any time, any more than
> :> the first amendment guarantees the individual the right to slander
> :> another.

> : Only the most extreme gun advocates would suggest such a thing.

> The "most extreme gun advocates" being a category that includes the
> NRA, I suppose.

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> Richard Schultz