Monday, February 11, 2008

BRIEF OF AMICUS CURIAE

ACADEMICS FOR THE SECOND AMENDMENT
IN SUPPORT OF THE RESPONDENT

Per David Hardy, it's now online.

Go. Read.
Posted by David Codrea at 2/11/2008 05:04:00 PM

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I'm only one sentence in:
Petitioners’ position is that the otherwisearticulate
Framers of the Second Amendment wrote
“the people” when they meant “only those people
serving in a sufficiently-organized militia.”

This looks to be good...

2/11/2008 5:40 PM
Anonymous said...

It is good. It is the most compact yet thorough study of origins I've read.

However, it is disheartening to see all the effort expended to counter the numerous dingbat theories that the disarmers concoct. Their sophomoric thinking is better suited to a Scooby Doo mystery than something so profoundly serious as disarming a populace and leaving them unprotected amongst the predators:

"I've got it! We'll hide the government's power to disarm the populace inside the part of the Constitution that unequivocally bars the government from interfering with the people's natural right to be armed. No one will ever think to look there!"

We can only imagine the scene outside Congress, when they pulled the Madison mask from the King's head, and he complained that he "would've gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for you pesky republicans!"

I also note that the word is arms, not simply limited to firearms. You can bet that if you walked down the street in DC with a harpoon, they'd find a way to make that illegal on the spot, too.

2/11/2008 10:36 PM

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