4 Sep 2024 2:32 pm
Cleary I am aware and Justice Scalia made a bad decision.Zeets2 » 04 Sep 2024, 2:29 pm » wrote: ↑ Clearly, you're unaware that the Supreme Court already has ruled on that distinction in 2008 in District of Columbia v Heller:
Maybe it's time you educated yourself regarding the 2nd Amendment:
Anything else you don't understand about it?
Justice Scalia’s justification of that decision, while rooted in an analysis of the amendment’s eighteenth-century context, was based on a fundamental misconception of the way that gun rights and militia service were understood and debated during the eighteenth century. It is not inherently bad history to say that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to bear arms; it is, however, bad history to declare that such a ruling was a return to the “original understanding” of the amendment. And it is especially bad history to claim that the protection of an individual right was the primary reason for the Second Amendment’s inclusion in the Bill of Rights.
https://firearmslaw.duke.edu/2020/10/wh ... ad-history
