Dave wrote:
On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 22:28:26 -0600, JimC said:


I don't question that that's what you said. But you didn't answer my
question.


I answered the question you asked, and did it rather precisely and
unambiguously. You asked what I was saying, and I told you.

I didn't answer the question you _thought_ you had asked--whether I intended
by my statement to be understood as asserting an entirely different
proposition. I then answered that question by saying no, I didn't intend my
statement to be understood as asserting anything more than its explicit
contents.
I asked the following question:
Are you saying that you think that the "well regulated militia"
mentioned in the 2nd Amendment is the same thing as "the people"? Or put
another way, that the American citizenry constitutes a "well REGULATED
militia."

You didn't answer the question. Instead, you merely stated that Larry
Tribe doesn't think the Amendment should be so limited. - That may or
may not be true (and, in fact, the overwhelming majority of appeals
cases interpreting the Amendment since Miller hold that there must be a
"reasonable relation" between rights under the Amendment and a militia
of some form). Nevertheless, please don't tell me that you answered the
question I asked. Because it simply isn't true.

Jim