2aguy
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no. i meant what i said. no justces believed in a private right of gun ownership. there was no precedent for it until scalia discovered it in Heller.
…the right of the people…shall not be infringed.”
There's the precedent. Straight from the wording of the Second Amendment itself, as ratified in 1791. What it affirms is a right of the people. This means an individual right. Period.
Any ruling which claims that “the people” does not mean the people, is just plain wrong.
ooh... i can use bold too.
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State,
so all of the justices for over two hundred years were wrong and scalia "discovered" out of thin air, the truth?
Which justices were those? Name one court that ruled the right to bear arms was not an individual right.
you can start with justice warren berger, dear
"A fraud on the American public.” That’s how former Chief Justice Warren Burger described the idea that the Second Amendment gives an unfettered individual right to a gun. When he spoke these words to PBS in 1990, the rock-ribbed conservative appointed by Richard Nixon was expressing the longtime consensus of historians and judges across the political spectrum. "
Read more: How the NRA Rewrote the Second Amendment
hitler, stalin, mao...they would all agree with him.