Chip: I am sorry if you misiniterpreted my comments about 2nd Ammendement issues being good fooder fro another thread. It was not meant to lesson it's imporatnce in the big scheme of things. Really, I am a gun owner and *former* NRA member. It's just that the original thread is about freedom of expression and assembly and I think there is a reason why it was penned first. Not to take away from any of the others but I think if one were going to impose on the other 9, then a good step would be to peal off the liberties expressed in the First Ammendment.

The point that I made about a second thread, if you will go back and reread it, only went as far as saying that perhaps that would be an interesting thread. If you took it any other way, I am truyely sorry, for that was not the intent.

"pompous" Bobert