Saturday, February 09, 2008
Just back from 10 days offline. Likely to blog something tomorrow.
George Orwell, the author of 1984, wrote: "The totalitarian states can do great things, but there is one thing they cannot do: they cannot give the factory-worker a rifle and tell him to take it home and keep it in his bedroom. That rifle hanging on the wall of the working class flat or labourer's cottage, is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays
there
Volokh has some coverage of the amici briefs in DC v Heller.
I've been reading Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle, a swashbuckling tale of the period 1650-1700, which stresses how the right to bear arms at one point was a matter of class privilege, and a gentleman carried a sword, even if he never used it other than as a badge of rank.
For the US to democratize the bearing of arms was as radical a reform as universal suffrage.
George Orwell, the author of 1984, wrote: "The totalitarian states can do great things, but there is one thing they cannot do: they cannot give the factory-worker a rifle and tell him to take it home and keep it in his bedroom. That rifle hanging on the wall of the working class flat or labourer's cottage, is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays
there
Volokh has some coverage of the amici briefs in DC v Heller.
I've been reading Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle, a swashbuckling tale of the period 1650-1700, which stresses how the right to bear arms at one point was a matter of class privilege, and a gentleman carried a sword, even if he never used it other than as a badge of rank.
For the US to democratize the bearing of arms was as radical a reform as universal suffrage.
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