Re: "Right to bear arms" (was: OT Science versus religion: Is compromise

On  6-Jan-2005, Peter Lacey <lacey@mb.sympatico.ca> wrote:

> Did you ever read Robert Heinlein's "The moon is a harsh mistress"?  At
> one point his hero proposes a branch of government whose sole purpose is
> to cancel laws!  Might be something in the idea!

Frank Herbert had a universe where there was a Bureau of Sabotage.    Becaus
e
law-making got so efficient they actually created a bureau whose sole functi
on
was to throw monkey wrenches into the works of governing.