Oh, THIS is GOOD!.

Ian Hamet at Banana Oil! issued a challenge on Friday that I just ran across. Ian's not normally a gunblogger, but his post is excellent. It begins:

If you favor gun control of any stripe, please read and attempt the following:

A well regulated Intelligentsia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and read Books, shall not be infringed.

Convince me, using only the text above,

* that this sentence does not guarantee an individual right, only a “collective” right; or

* that this sentence means that the only legitimate intelligentsia is the one controlled by government; or

* that this sentence allows the government to decide which books are safe and which are dangerous, and permits it to ban those it does not approve, and to dictate how all books under private ownership must be stored; or

* that this sentence permits the government to require the registration of all books and book owners.

Damn. I wish I'd written that. Read the conditions for responding, and definitely read the comments.

I hope I'll have more to say about a couple of the responses when I have more time (and a better connection.)

[And, interestingly enough, I saw it there BEFORE I read about it at Instapundit. The Puppy Blender does not yet rule the world.]