A Well Regulated Militiaa
A well – Regulated militia?
A well-regulated militia is an essay by Paul Fussell. Paul Fussell is a well-established English professor and in his essay he shares his thoughts on the gun-law in America and the NRA’s way of misquoting. Paul Fussell is very eloquent in his words & he chooses his words with care. The way he appeals to the subject & the way he criticizes are so well formulated, however I will be focusing on the National Rifle Association.
The NRA short for National rifle association is a powerful association that pretty much is an association that fights for people and their rights to bear arms. They are behind police training, firearm safety, marksmanship, hunting and self-defense training in the United States. The NRA headquarter has a marble panel which on the right side quotes the second amendment, well some parts of it. As Paul Fussell describes: “The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed, which sounds familiar – so familiar that the student naturally expects the left-hand panel to honor the principle of symmetry (…) (p 485 ll 6-8). So when people read the quote from the second amendment on the right side of the marble panel, they kind of expect the missing part of the quote to be finished on the left side with “A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state”. However the left side is just filled with the National Rifle Association functions. Paul Fussell describes it as: “But looking to the left, the inquirer discovers not that clause at all but rather this lame list of NRA functions and specializations (...) (P 485 ll 10-12)”. So what professor Fussell is trying to say is that the NRA isn’t honoring the principle of symmetry, meaning that the NRA is actually misquoting which can be very misleading, unfair and also very disrespectful against the constitution which is actually written very eloquently and now they are just misquoting it. Professor Fussell is actually saying that by
A well-regulated militia is an essay by Paul Fussell. Paul Fussell is a well-established English professor and in his essay he shares his thoughts on the gun-law in America and the NRA’s way of misquoting. Paul Fussell is very eloquent in his words & he chooses his words with care. The way he appeals to the subject & the way he criticizes are so well formulated, however I will be focusing on the National Rifle Association.
The NRA short for National rifle association is a powerful association that pretty much is an association that fights for people and their rights to bear arms. They are behind police training, firearm safety, marksmanship, hunting and self-defense training in the United States. The NRA headquarter has a marble panel which on the right side quotes the second amendment, well some parts of it. As Paul Fussell describes: “The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed, which sounds familiar – so familiar that the student naturally expects the left-hand panel to honor the principle of symmetry (…) (p 485 ll 6-8). So when people read the quote from the second amendment on the right side of the marble panel, they kind of expect the missing part of the quote to be finished on the left side with “A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state”. However the left side is just filled with the National Rifle Association functions. Paul Fussell describes it as: “But looking to the left, the inquirer discovers not that clause at all but rather this lame list of NRA functions and specializations (...) (P 485 ll 10-12)”. So what professor Fussell is trying to say is that the NRA isn’t honoring the principle of symmetry, meaning that the NRA is actually misquoting which can be very misleading, unfair and also very disrespectful against the constitution which is actually written very eloquently and now they are just misquoting it. Professor Fussell is actually saying that by