well regulated

[Dan Goodman]

> Date:    Mon, 17 Mar 2003 09:34:59 EST
> From:    "James A. Landau" <JJJRLandau at AOL.COM>
> Subject: Re: well regulated
>
> It is without intent of making even a quarter-assed political statement on
> the subject of gun control that I state a wish that the Founding Fathers
> had devoted a little more time to making the wording of the Second
> Amendment less vague.  Had they done so, we might have been spared a good
> deal of thunderation on this issue.

I suspect that the people who wrote the text of the Second Amendment
(note:  they were not the Founding Fathers, though there was an overlap)
considered vagueness a feature rather than a bug.  Greater clarity would
have meant fewer votes.