Re: The right to bear arms & make salad

[Robert Praetorius <rmp () iidb org>]

on the intersection of guns and fun in funsec:

> Here's the wording on the 2nd amendment:
>
>    "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of 
>     a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms,  
>     shall not be infringed."

heard recently on the radio:

http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/programs/2008/06/28/scripts/english.shtml

GK: After this message from the Professional Organization of English
Majors. Sentence consruction is so important and a badly-constructed
sentence can cause confusion for years and years. Like this one. 

TR: A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free
State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be
infringed. 

GK: What does this mean? Anybody can have a gun? Or just people who
belong to a Militia? Or just people on the fringe? 

TR: A well regulated Militia, comma, being necessary to the security of
a free State, comma, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms,
comma, shall not be infringed, period. - That means I can have this gun
and if you want to take it away from me, English major- go ahead. Make
my day. (GUNSHOT) 

GK: The shot went wildly off target as the English major, moving with
the swiftness of a puma, kicked the gun out of the non-Militiaman's hand
-(

TR: OOOFFF) - and simultaneously pressed his thumb to the gunman's right
temporal lobe , directing blood to the syntax cortex. 

TR: I no longer feel the urge to bear arms, now that acupressure has
made me aware of the power of words. Thanks, English Major. 

GK: A message from the Professional Organization of English Majors.

Open script
 <http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/programs/2008/06/28/> Saturday,
June 28, 2008

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