Fighting Words

Fighting Wordswhat do free speech, gun control and abortion have in common? they are the new chorus in our theater of confusionI Am A Member of both the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Rifle Association.Privileged to sit in these two mutually abhorrent camps, I have been struck by the similarity of their fundamentalist stance on two disparate issues: the First (A.C.L.U.) and Second (N.R.A.) amendments to the Constitution.The First Amendment states that there shall be no law limit...