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What would the Founding Fathers say about assault weapons?
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That leaves the view that there's something special about weapons that can be used both for self-defense and for militias. According to Scalia, those are the weapons that the people who ratified the Second Amendment had in mind.
Today, that includes handguns. But it doesn't include assault rifles. They're great for military purposes, and no doubt fun to shoot on the range. But they aren't useful for self-defense, almost by definition.
It emerges that a careful, responsible originalist wouldn't apply Second Amendment protection to weapons that aren't simultaneously for self-protection and for hypothetical militias. |
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neilevan
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| They'd say, "Awesome!" |
| Comment by:
gariders
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| better yet, what would they say about computers? The internet... What about the media, both radio and television... we could do this all day. |
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