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Originally Posted by indago  Todd Kim, the solicitor general for the District of Columbia, noted, in arguments to the Court of Appeals: "We interpret the Second Amendment in military terms", declaring that the city would also have the authority to ban all weapons. Judge Laurence Silberman, one of the Appeals Court Judges hearing the arguments, queried: "Show me anybody in the 19th century who interprets the Second Amendment the way you do. It doesn't appear until much later, the middle of the 20th century." | Ooh. Now that throws a wrench into things  "An intellectual is going to have doubts, for example, about a fundamentalist religious doctrine that admits no doubt, about an imposed political system that allows no doubt, about a perfect aesthetic that has no room for doubt." ~ Antonio Tabucchi
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