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Q: How will Betty Loren-Maltese identify gang members?
In The Maltese Falcon , the Bogart character was probably using it as a general term of disparagement.
I doubt that it is accurate to define gunsel as a `callow youth,' a sense that probably rubbed off from the character played by Elisha Cook, Jr. in The Maltese Falcon: though he was referred to (by Bogart, as I recall) as a `punk' and `gunsel' and was portrayed as ineffectual, that does not justify a transferred definition: gunsel , probably from Yiddish, is a less common, old-fashioned term for `gunman, body guard, torpedo, hit man,' and the like, simply a `criminal who carries a gun,' and needs no (additional) pejorative treatment.
Q: How does Betty Loren-Maltese respond when constitutional scholar Mark Tushnet notes: "You can punish people for what they do; you can't punish people for what that are."
Q: Is there something else Betty Loren-Maltese kind of calls her proposal?