Justice Antonin Scalia, writing for the majority in the 2008 case, District of Columbia v. Heller, attributed the “dangerous and unusual” language to Sir William Blackstone, an 18th-century English jurist whose writings became the basis for much of American law. But in his seminal 1769 treatise, “Commentaries on the Laws of England, ” Blackstone referred to weapons that were “dangerous or unusual, ” suggesting that a gun did not need to be both in order to be restricted. [More]
Playing “Gotcha” with semantics, are we? Now do “shall not be infringed.”
Name a weapon that’s not dangerous when deployed.
What further proof than this latest bit of subversion from the newsraper of record do we need that the end game is total citizen disarmament?
