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David Dunklee, on the other hand, feels a renewed pride in the N.R.A. now that its focus has shifted from sporting issues to a zealous defense of gun ownership. Like many N.R.A. members, he fears that the citizenry's right to bear arms has been sorely challenged by such incidents as the 1993 federal raid on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, and the 1992 standoff between Randy Weaver and federal agents at Ruby Ridge in Idaho. "There should be more investigation. The government needs to explain itself more fully," says Dunklee, a range instructor in Phoenix, Arizona...
...control advocates, on the other hand, tend to view the amendment as a dusty historical relic. For almost everyone else, the wording of the amendment is puzzling: "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." Which part of the amendment is binding: the antiquated language about militias, or the broad language about the right to bear arms...
Randomization will condemn many responsible young adults to unhappiness and dissatisfaction, making and existence that is already unbelievably stressful even harder to bear. Further, the decision to randomize trades a purely theoretical gain for a practical, existing good; this is the very definition of irresponsibility, especially when it is not clear that there is a problem that requires so radical a surgery...
Contrary to the common caricature, not all NRA members are crazed, government-hating militia members. Many members are simply law-abiding citizens, some not even gun owners, who seek to protect a constitutionally guaranteed right to bear arms...
...been a lousy stock for many years, and one reason is that the top players have siphoned off the profits. It used to be that all the major investment banks were private partnerships a la Goldman Sachs, but others besides Salomon (such as Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley and Bear Stearns) have gone public. Morgan Stanley's shares have tripled in value in less than 10 years, but the other two have turned in a mediocre performance, and the bonus system is partly to blame...