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. . . What I mean is that Gun Control politically and legally was at its apex of power and influence in the 1990s. In that period the courts and legal schools were dominated by the "collective right" interpretation of the 2nd Amendment, the idea that the 2nd was an Individual Right was...

Why do they even try this? Like, this isn't even likely going to get to the Supreme Courts... hell, even back in the 1990s when Gun Control was at it's peak people would have expected the Courts to say a ban on all semi-automatic weapons was a violations of the 2nd.

It goes back to the issues we've had with Congress for a while at this point: nobody in Congress wants to actually be responsible for anything, and restructuring the US Court system is one of those things that Congress can't pawn off on anyone, they have to do the hard work and horse trading to...

The entire point of her having a private server was so that the State Department's security people COULDN'T track her activities. They didn't have visibility onto her server and thus couldn't track them. Clinton wasn't the first person to do this in the government either, there were W. Bush...

Imagine using this logic on abortion: Republican governor: "There's a public health emergency and thus I'm shutting down all abortion clinics." "What's the public health emergency?" "Babies are DYING." Yeah... someone on the left realized how bad this logic could backfire on them if they...

Age restrictions on tht 2nd fail the common use of firearms history test. In the 18th century saying a 14 year old couldn't bear arms they would have laughed and laughed and laughed and then asked what temperature you'd like the tar at and if you had any bird allergies.

Ehh... not entirely true. There was no expectation that the militia would be able to support the cost of Ships of the Line, or even Frigates, which were the Battleships and Cruisers of the day. They did expect them to be able to support smaller patrol ships but even then in the period...

*cough* The one actual historically recorded use of Smallpox Blankets was from the French and Indian War... within the lifetime of many of the Founders and Framers (Washington, explicitly, served in it). So they might not have been as against private biological warfare as folks think. :P

Random suggestion, put the large legal document posts into spoilers. They often end up disrupting the page as it loads for folks who are using the "go to newest post" feature.

I get the gun rights community getting frustrated with the NRA, and any corruption in the organization should be burned out and prosecuted. But the New York case was pure political persecution that we should be glad is getting pushed back by the court. The New York case and their desired...

I honestly couldn't believe the police even tried that argument, to say nothing of the lower courts upholding it. To explain to the gallery, the "community caretaking" exception to the 4th Amendment is historically a VERY NARROW exception that applied only to motor vehicles that were abandoned...

One can make a strong case for that, for Europe at least. That said, a lot of what has ailed Western society developed earlier than that, Marxism predates it, and the US Progressive movement of the early 20th century that basically fucked everything up happened quite independently of (and began...

I'm actually a little pessimistic on the outcome being anything like a full throated endorsement we need for the 2nd. I suspect that Roberts is going to either flake out and manage to make it a 5-4 upholding gun control (in an attempt to kowtow to the Dems out 9f fear that anything less will...

Which is still bad, as it means prioritizing the agency's interpretation of the written text of a law over both it's plain reading AND what is shown to be in the Congressional record as the intent of the law. This also means that, in effect, Federal Agencies get to set their OWN limits based on...

I have to wonder what kind of favors Roberts had to call in to get that sixth vote against, or what kind of bullshit that the Progressive have on Roberts to make him so consistently vote with them on hot button issues. It's getting to the point of ridiculousness. If it's a critical issue where...