Re: Guns, again

[Marc <cram3813@uidaho.edu>]

At 10:09 PM 9/23/99 -0800, you wrote:
>Thanks much for the reference. His rationale is sound and agrees with my 
>sense that the socio-political and military contexts which lead to the 
>2nd amendment ceased to exist 150 years ago, following the Civil War 
>{"War between theStates"). Today our contexts are so radically different 
>that lethal arms uses must be constrained in order to provide for 
>"domestic tranquility" and the "general welfare." Amen  I outlined my 
>ideas on this previously and I don't expect that consensus can be had at 
>this stage of the mis-informed state of public opinion.
>
And I suppose you are one of the few "informed" ones?  

And when has facts ever had anything to do with a consensus?  Just look at
our political arena.  Just because someone can vote to decide something
does not mean they neccessarily know anything about it.

Marc
Uninformed and not knowing it