re: #96 Aceofwhat?

how fortunate, then, that my right to own a firearm is constitutional!

How unfortunate that the current 5 of 9 so badly screwed up their interpretation of the 2nd amendment. They committed a cardinal sin: in their haste to get to a pre-ordained conclusion they read out of the amendment an entire phrase. (Leaving aside their contempt for precedent, for now.) The rules are supposed to be that we assume the framers intended for every word to have meaning. Instead, they erased the phrase “A well-regulated militia being necessary…”

“Well-regulated”. Interesting phrase, isn’t it? Wouldn’t a well-regulated militia include some rules on the sorts of weapons its members would carry? If only for logistics and ammo resupply, wouldn’t you, as the regulator of that militia, think that you would have the ability to require that its members carry firearms that are of maximum utility to the militia?

At any rate, do read Egan’s piece. It is pretty good.