re: #93 EPR-radar

Agreed. Gun control proponents shouldn’t use arguments like that. It’s a self-defeating distraction from things that might actually work.

I’m also leery of arguments predicated on Heller being 100% wrongly decided. The second amendment is ambiguous. There is no way to tell from its text exactly how (if at all) militia service is connected with the right to keep and bear arms. So even if Heller gets reversed, the possibility of that reversal being overturned will never go away.

Furthermore, the militia as understood by the founders is a historical relic that hasn’t been in operation for over a century. Making the second amendment all about the militia just doesn’t seem to make sense.

What they meant by the Second Amendment was something like: “A well trained and well equipped military force being essential to the security of a free State, Congress shall not fail to recruit, train, and equip such a force with suitable arms by whatever means, public and/or private, as they shall determine.”