What Do You Do When People Steal Your Stuff?
BY Herschel Smith
11 years, 9 months ago
The Supreme Court recognized our right to ownership of firearms, but didn’t specifically broach the issue of “bearing” those arms, i.e., carrying them for personal defense. The Second Amendment, as Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia knows, isn’t about duck hunting, or deer hunting, or any other “sporting purpose.” The sporting purposes test imposed by the last round of onerous firearms laws, and enforced by the ATF, is entirely unconstitutional. But proliferation of this test through the judiciary (from some future decision) is cowardly because it doesn’t formally recognize the truth, and that is that the second amendment exists in order to ameliorate tyranny.
Me on Scalia:
The Supreme Court recognized our right to ownership of firearms, but didn’t specifically broach the issue of “bearing” those arms, i.e., carrying them for personal defense.
This relationship that appears to be developing between Scalia and Kagan is, I’m sure, very sweet and and all of that, but I wouldn’t count on her vote. Furthermore, the whole issue of duck hunting concerns me. The Second Amendment, as Scalia knows, isn’t about duck hunting, or deer hunting, or any other “sporting purpose.” The sporting purposes test imposed by the last round of onerous firearms laws, and enforced by the ATF, is entirely unconstitutional. I have said before that I think the test is misapplied, and that if it is a firearm, it has a sporting purpose. But proliferation of this test through the judiciary (from some future decision) is cowardly because it doesn’t formally recognize the truth, and that is that the second amendment exists in order to ameliorate tyranny.
Look, I will quote other writers, and sometimes at length. But what I try to do is quote (especially for my friends) in such a way that the reader wants to visit their site to finish reading their analysis.
This was cited without attribution. Bad form.
On March 21, 2013 at 9:19 pm, Mr. Hand said:
Wow! They did areally crappy job of using your stuff.