Thursday, June 26, 2008

The Supreme Court

So the Supreme Court just recently struck down the Washington D.C. total hand gun ban. The right to bear arms is not what I am vexed about, I think that responsible people can be trusted to have weapons, just not armor piercing bullets, grenade launchers, and the like. What really "grinds my gears" is this quote from Scalia's opinion:

The Second Amendment provides: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” In interpreting this text, we are guided by the principle that “[t]he Constitution was written to be understood by the voters; its words and phrases were used in their normal and ordinary as distinguished from technical meaning.”


It seems that Justice Scalia is a strict constructionist only when it suits him, I mean what the hell is original intent?

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