From: Sarah Thompson <righter@intele.net>
Subject: On 2nd Thought, Is There A Right to Bear Arms?
To: firearms-alert@shell.portal.com, utah-firearms@xmission.com
Date: Thu, 11 May 1995 07:44:16 -0600 (MDT)


>From the front page of the 5/11 Salt Lake Tribune (and probably others since
it comes from Combined News Services):

On Second Thought, Is There a Right to Bear Arms?

	"It is in the Bill of  Rights and at the heart of America's anguish
about guns, but law professors ignore it, legal casebooks omit it, and
courts dodge it.
	"For decades, the American Bar Association, the American Civil
Liberties Union, gun control advocates, federal judges, and most scholars
have regarded the one-sentence, badly written Second Amendment as a 
constitutional relic.  It provides no individual right to bear arms, but
merely protects state militias - today's National Guard - from being
disarmed, they say.
	"But to the National Rifle Association, its millions of members,
and government-hating extremists armed with weapons and conspiracy theories,
the Second Amendment is as revered as Biblical text.  It guarantees, they 
insist, that a citizen may possess a gun to defend against crime or 
tyranny, although the NRA avoids making the argument in court."

	remainder deleted due to space and copyright

	The article becomes a bit more balanced later on, but continues to
maintain the same attitude.

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					Sarah Thompson

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