Court says individuals have right to own guns

[KSig RC]

By the way, if you don't love Antonin Scalia on at least some visceral level (regardless of your politics or Constitutional stance), then I revoke my promise to buy any GCer a beer at any given time. Look at this beauty:

Originally Posted by Tony Tone Toni

Giving "bear arms" its idiomatic meaning would cause the protected right to consist of the right to be a soldier or to wage war-an absurdity that no commentator has ever endorsed...Worse still, the phrase "keep and bear Arms" would be incoherent. The word "Arms" would have two different meanings at once: "weapons" (as the object of "keep") and (as the object of "bear") one-half of an idiom. It would be rather like saying "he filled and kicked the bucket" to mean "he filled the bucket and died." Grotesque.

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[KSigkid]

Originally Posted by KSig RC

By the way, if you don't love Antonin Scalia on at least some visceral level (regardless of your politics or Constitutional stance), then I revoke my promise to buy any GCer a beer at any given time. Look at this beauty:



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That's the great thing about Scalia, he's (in my opinion) the best writer on the court - you can absolutely disagree with his position in cases, but you still come away impressed.

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by KSigkid

That's the great thing about Scalia, he's (in my opinion) the best writer on the court - you can absolutely disagree with his position in cases, but you still come away impressed.

And often entertained. He does have a way with words.