05-21-2017, 07:39 PM
(05-21-2017, 05:45 PM)Eric the Obtuse Wrote: You call it the "Jim Crow interpretation" of the 2nd amendment, that says that the 2nd confers the right to bear arms on the militia. I call the Scalia ruling the "right-wing extremist third-turning-era interpretation" of it. The right-wing movement that currently rules our country and took power in 1980 is the most extreme faction in our country in history, save perhaps for the Dixie hotheads of the mid-19th century.
It really is depressing when a comedian does better research than you can manage. Thinking really is beyond you isn't it?
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If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises