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designed to keep a stupid opinion held by a majority of the population from becoming enshrined in law.

I don't understand what opinion or who the majority is supposed to be. Help me out.

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

I don't understand what opinion or who the majority is supposed to be. Help me out.

I was thinking about foolish opinions in general, but what provoked the thought was that quote about how a majority of people in other countries were of the opinion that firearm ownership by individuals was a bad idea. Here, we have the concept that our rights are not subject to the whim of the majority (in theory, at least).