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What legitimate reason does anyone in a densely populated city have for assault riffles? I'm a strong supporter of the Constitution, including the 2nd Amendment

We usually don't see such mendacity in adjoining sentences - usually weasels like yourself put a paragraph or two between such a blatant contradiction. If the government is empowered to determine the legitimacy of a right, then it really isn't a right any more, as it has just become subjective.

I'm going to have to disagree with you here.

First of all, the courts have routinely ruled that they can, which is my point. Whether you personally agree with them or not, the courts are the final arbitors on the Constitution, not you.

And secondly, narrow interpritations of the Constitution work in favor of conservatives on some issues.
Just as courts have been able to say that the Constitutional right to bear arms is not a blanket right for any individual to bears any type of arms he chooses, so is the Constitutional protection of abortion not a blanket right for anyone to have an abortion at any time, such as during the 3rd trimester.

Picking and choosing the powers of judicial review based on your own personal feelings on the issue is what liberals do, not conservatives.

I recognize that there are some things that stand as law that I may not agree with in my own personal life and practices. I recognize that my own beliefs do not change the legal realities on the matter. I also recognize that should I act in a way that I personally believe the law SHOULD be, rather than in the way that the law is actually interprited as, then I would risk going to jail.

People need to learn to seperate their own personal feelings and tastes from their political and policy positions.

For example, you not have to be a homosexual to believe that sodomy should not be criminal, nor should you have to be an atheist to recognize that the Government has no place endorsing religion.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with Arnold Schwarzenegger agreeing with the established interpritations of the Constitution.