Freedom from what?

[mahnmut]

Gun advocate: "...and yet it is possible for any government to become sufficiently corrupt and malevolent. Thus, the point of the second amendment."

Comments

[johnny9fingers]

You have pinpointed a huge oversight. But, I wonder, why haven't other equally reputable academic bodies stepped in to fill the breach, so to speak. Whither Harvard, Princeton, Yale? Of for that matter, the number crunchers at MIT? Or to be really subversive, why not foreign Universities with no axe to grind like Oxford, Cambridge, or the Sorbonne?

The NRA can't be paying them all off, can it? So what in heck is going on here? There are reputations to be made with this research, surely.

[sandwichwarrior]

But not the corrct sort of reputation.

[mahnmut]

Philosophical issues aside, it usually all boils down to money.

[brother_dour]

I would love nothing more than a Constitutional amendment banning ALL lobbying. That would be awesome!

[mahnmut]

Careful what you wish for. That may deprive you of lobbyists lobbying for causes that are close to your heart. ;-)

[brother_dour]

Oh I know, and I still think no lobbying at all is better than corporate personhood. I say, let the lobbyists lobby us, the voters, directly- not Congress. WE will decide who deserves what

[mahnmut]

That's a commendable position to have. Unfortunately, I don't see that coming any time soon.

[brother_dour]

Me, either. But hey...ideals are just that, right?