The grammar of the Second Amendment [View All]

[takebackthewh]

As a left-winger who nevertheless happens to believe in the Second Amendment, I was a bit nervous when I first ventured into DU a couple of years ago. I expected unremitting hostility to guns.

However, I was pleasantly surprised to find that there is a significant faction here who do support the Second Amendment. I would say 20-35 percent of the membership. Which I guess goes to show that just because you hate Bush, that doesn't mean you have to hate guns.

With these thoughts in mind, my friends here may wish to read the following column. I'm curious to hear reactions to this guy's argument.

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The Newsroom Iconoclast

Kshew-kshew! The grammar of the Second Amendment

Sunday, January 30, 2005

By Michael Bowers, Star columnist

What red-blooded American boy doesn't love to play with guns?

No matter if it's a broom handle or Barbie doll, just so long as he can point it and go "Kshew-kshew!"

And what red-blooded American boy doesn't go to bed dreaming of nonessential clauses? Give him a copy of "The Careful Writer" and he'll be absorbed for days.

Well, OK, maybe not that second part. Give a boy a grammar book and he'll probably point it at you and go "Kshew-kshew!"

However, in America, it happens that guns and nonessential clauses are fundamentally related. I refer to the grammar of the Second Amendment.

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