Re: The 2ed Amendment as a Gun Nuts Wet Dream

On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 14:56:13 GMT, Steve Krulick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:



>
>NOW, put ALL that info together and go back and apply it to the
>lines 13, 14, 21, and 22. 
>
>http://www.saf.org/LawReviews/HeymanChicago.htm
>
Heyman uses material from the thoroughly discredited 
pseodohistorian Michael Bellesiles to support his work.  Heyman is 
nothing more than another cog in the Joyce Foundation sponsored 
Chicago-Kent Law Review Symposium on the Second Amendment mutual 
admiration scoiety circle jerk.

http://www.saf.org/LawReviews/HeymanChicago.htm
Chicago-Kent Law Review
Symposium on the Second Amendment
vol. 76, 2000: 237

Heyman
     NATURAL RIGHTS AND THE SECOND AMENDMENT
"This Article was presented as part of the Symposium on the Second
Amendment: Fresh Looks held at Chicago-Kent on April 28, 2000. I would
like to thank Michael Bellesiles, Harry Clor, John Goldberg, Mark
Rosen, and David Williams for their thoughtful comments, and Ross
Friedman and Adrianne Zahner for their valuable research assistance."

      Uses:
        Michael A. Bellesiles, The Second Amendment in Action, 76
CHI.-KENT L. REV. 61 (2000); 
For a fuller account of Bellesiles's research, see MICHAEL A.
BELLESILES, ARMING AMERICA: THE ORIGINS OF A NATIONAL GUN CULTURE,
(2000).
      The book that cost him the Bancroft because he "remanufactured"
material that was  destroyed in a fire back in 1906 or so. 

       Carl T. Bogus, The Hidden History of the Second Amendment, 31 
U.C. DAVIS. L. REV. 309 (1998); Carl T. Bogus, Race, Riots, and Guns,
66 S. CAL. L. REV. 1365 (1993); 

     Keith A. Ehrman & Dennis A. Henigan, The Second Amendment in the 
Twentieth Century: Have You Seen Your Militia Lately?, 15 U. DAYTON L.

REV. 5 (1989); Dennis A. Henigan, Arms, Anarchy and the Second 
Amendment, 26 VAL. U. L. REV. 107 (1991).
Attorney for the Brady Campaign

      Jack N. Rakove, The Second Amendment: The Highest Stage of 
Originalism, 76 CHI.-KENT L. REV. 103 (2000).

      Paul Finkelman, "A Well Regulated Militia": The Second Amendment

in Historical Perspective, 76 CHI.-KENT L. REV. 195 (2000).

I didn't really realize what a real circle jerk this was untill I
recently looked at how most of them use each others material from the
same symposium they were attending to support their assertions.

>
>This is from historian Garry Wills:
>
http://www.nationalreview.com/kopel/kopel031601.shtml

Faith of Our Fathers
What the Second Amendment means.


Mr. Kopel, research director of the Independence Institute, & author
of 
The Second Amendment in the Nineteenth Century
March 16, 2001 9:35 a.m.

     Begin excerpt:
 
That someone as smart as Wills can make such preposterous arguments 
shows how desperate are the emotional needs, in some quarters, to make

the Second Amendment disappear by sheer will-power. Garry Wills
despises 
"the sordid race of gunsels" and "gun fetishists" whose mere ownership

of defensive firearms makes them "traitors, enemies of their own
patriae
." [Garry Wills, "Gun Rules...or Worldwide Gun Control?" Phil. Inq.,
May 
17, 1981, page 8E; Garry Wills, "John Lennon's War," Chi. Sun-Times, 
Dec. 12, 1980.] 

Wills' problem is he believes, as he wrote in 1981, "Every civilized 
society must disarm its citizens against each other" Unfortunately for

Wills, he lives in a nation whose Supreme Court has declared that the 
right to keep and bear arms "is found wherever civilization exists." [
United States v. Cruikshank, 92 U.S. 542, 551 (1876).]