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To: Judges Silberman and Griffith From: Dan Badger Subject: Shelley Parker et al v. District of Columbia I have read your decision in Shelley Parker et al v. District of Columbia , and I am appalled. The jurisprudence you present in this opinion does not pass the laugh test. The acrobatics to which you resort in struggling to justify your position on the politically-charged issue of the right to bear arms are beyond belief. I have therefore awarded this opinion a failing grade of "E" (for entrepreneur). Here's why. The case presents the court with a simple question: whether the twenty-seven words of the Second Amendment ("A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed.") protect only a collective right -- for people to keep and bear arms for purposes of membership in a state militia -- or also an individual right -- for people to keep and bear arms to shoot rab...