Matter of fact Wrote:
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> 20 years? Try more than 200 years. There had
> never been an individual right found until the
> revisionist Scalia invented one from whole cloth
> in perhaps the worst written opinion since Bush v
> Gore. And keep in mind that what Heller and
> McDonald provide is an individual right to possess
> a firearm for traditionally lawful purposes, such
> as self-defense within the home. There is nothing
> more. That's the extent of it. The decisions
> further affirm that all manner of restrictions and
> limitations may be imposed upon this right so long
> as they do not combine or operate so as to obviate
> the right itself. Small, small victory for guns
> nuts there, though rather few of them realize it.
BS. The principle of the right to defense of self and property (whether with a gun, blade, club, or other tool of the time available) goes back about as far as you care to try to trace it.
Likewise, the individual interpretation and intent and related structure of the amendment has been supported by legal scholars other than Scalia long before you claim that he "invented" it. e.g., among tons of others:
http://www2.law.ucla.edu/volokh/common.htm
But like a good ideologue you only absorb what you want to believe.
It's now "settled law" as you guys like to say when it's something favored. Get over it.