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Late-Justice Scalia's Faint-Hearted Support of Gun Rights
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Mark A. Taff
Website: http://www.marktaff.com
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In his final sections, Scalia's robust commitment to an individual right to bear arms virtually evaporates. He is not the strong advocate for gun rights he is made out to be.
Scalia starts his Section III by stating that no right is absolute. He then provides a major setback to gun-rights enthusiasts by establishing potentially broad-reaching criteria for limiting the reach of Second Amendment protections: |
| Comment by:
Sosalty
(7/28/2016)
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| Comment by:
PHORTO
(7/29/2016)
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If any reader wants to make a baloney sandwich, there's a lot in here to make a really fat one.
The author completely ignores Scalia's declaration in dicta that the Second Amendment extends, prima facie, to all instruments that constitute bearable arms.
Not only does he ignore it, he says that Scalia's analysis declares the opposite.
Not an honest person, and this is a despicable defamation of a great man. |
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| Those, who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power to make what revolutions they please. [Thus,] there is no end to observations on the difference between the measures likely to be pursued by a minister backed by a standing army, and those of a court awed by the fear of an armed people. — Aristotle, as quoted by John Trenchard and Water Moyle, An Argument Shewing, That a Standing Army Is Inconsistent with a Free Government, and Absolutely Destructive to the Constitution of the English Monarchy [London, 1697]. |
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