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williamt@athena.Eng.Sun.COM (Dances with Drums) writes:

>	More to the point -- are citizens free from being beaten at gunpoint
>by officers of the law acting outside the law?  The Rodney King case
>is one example of officers acting outside the law (all white juries
>not withstanding).  Another case was just recently when students at
>UCSC were maced, kicked and beaten while holding a sit-in.  Some of

And you think any of these cases would have been  improved if the people
had guns? King and those students would all be dead.

>	As for registering keys...why do law enforcement officials think
>they have a right to know what I am saying to another person.  It seems
>like this is an infringement on *freedom* of expression -- if my expression
>to another person *must* be subject to monitoring, is it really free?

Certainly when they framed the constution, they did not mean "free
speach" as "You can keep any secret you want to keep". It means that I
can in public say things and not be brought to court for saying them.