Clever, but scary
The Boston Globe has an opinion piece from Robert Levy, who is involved with the Heller case. The first half of the page is taken up by a picture of a huge handgun with "Not to be used for self-defense" engraved on the barrel. I'll give them credit for a clever graphic, but the placement and size is likely to give anyone with hoplophobia a good case of the shivers. I wonder if that was deliberate.If the district's outright ban on all handguns, in all homes, at all times, for all purposes, is determined by the court to pass muster, it will mean that the Supreme Court intends to rubberstamp just about any regulation that a legislature can dream up - no matter whether the government has offered any justification whatsoever, much less a justification that would survive strict scrutiny. That would, in effect, excise the Second Amendment from the Constitution. A right that cannot be enforced is no right at all.What he said. It's time the courts took the 2nd Amendment seriously. Total bans on functional firearms in the home need to come off the table. |
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