You write, I write ...
From: E. Kirk
Re: My columns advocating sensible gun control.
He writes: "Just how incredibly stupid are you? I know you're one of those anti-gun nuts, but why must you keep dragging out the same old drivel?
You must also have never actually read the Constitution. If you had you would know the first 10 amendments are called the 'Bill of Rights.' They are also individual rights, every one of them, not just the 1st and (the) 3rd through 10th. The 2nd is also an individual right, and what you anti-gun nuts need to do is quit getting caught up in trying to determine what the wording of the 2nd Amendment meant when they included it."
I write: E., you'll have to ask my wife for a definitive answer on just how stupid I am, but I've never been an ilk in my life.
I am, though, fully aware of the 2nd Amendment and the fact that for 200 years people have been divided on what that horribly constructed sentence ("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.") meant then and should mean now, including the U.S. Supreme Court. So if I ilk, at least I ilk in good company.
Some early writing on the subject: