It seems like there's a group of liberal profs that are claiming that
the 2nd amendment was never ratified. From their webpage:
"Scholars for Constitutional Accuracy, a non-partisan, non-profit
organization, has reached the conclusion that the second amendment of
the United States Constitution was, in fact, never ratified. The
much-debated second amendment dealt with the right to bear arms. As a
result of this discovery the second amendment no longer carries
constitutional weight."
Re: DC v Heller: Amicus Brief of the Real Linguists, Part I ... If you'd ever seen a picture of the Second Amendment in action... ... Have you found the part in the Constitution that says I can't have ... You failed to refute a single point I made, or the evidence that backed it up. ... It leaves it up to THE STATES to deal with it, and thus, under the 10th Amen, STATES can say you can't have a gun, and the Const thus OKs the ability of states to do that, as the courts have consistently ruled. ... (talk.politics.guns)
Judge Richard A. Posner gets it ALL wrong ... At the end of June, the Supreme Court, in a case called District of Columbia v. Heller, invalidated the District's ban on the private ownership of pistols. ... The majority opinion, by Justice Antonin Scalia, concluded that the original, and therefore the authoritative, meaning of the Second Amendment is that Americans are entitled to possess pistols for the defense of their homes. ... Scalia's entire analysis rests on this interpretive method, which denies the legitimacy of flexible interpretation designed to adapt the Constitution to current conditions. ... The text of the amendment, whether viewed alone or in light of the concerns that actuated its adoption, creates no right to the private possession of guns for hunting or other sport, or for the defense of person or property. ... (talk.politics.guns)
Re: Judge Richard A. Posner gets it ALL wrong ... At the end of June, the Supreme Court, in a case called District of Columbia ... It did so in the name of the Second Amendment to the Constitution.... "A well regulated Militia being necessary to ... (talk.politics.guns)
Re: Democratic base dials up pressure ... So you'd say the US Constitution is just a goddamned piece of paper, ... Especially the Second Amendment which protects the individual right to ... restrict the powers of the national government, ... prohibits the legislation in question lies in the fact that ... (talk.politics.guns)
Rick Stanley REPEAL THE SECOND AMENDMENT? ... WE THE PEOPLE SCOOP - TO EXPOSE! ... OPINION RELEASE: REPEAL THE SECOND AMENDMENT?... the American ideal of liberty.... Barnett and Witt appear to be that worst sort of enemy to the Constitution.... (talk.politics.guns)
