". the would-be gun grabber . . "
The charge is repeated again. Yet:
"Slouching Towards Gomorrah" and found this passage at p. 167, after Bork denounces gun control as "frivolous":
Gun control proposals are nothing more than a modern liberal suggestion that government, which is unable to protect its citizens, make sure those citizens cannot defend themselves.
Another freeper has debunked that.
In a footnote on page 166, Judge Bork writes that ``the Supreme Court has consistently ruled that there is no individual right to own a firearm. The Second Amendment was designed to allow states to defend themselves against a possibly tyrannical national government. Now that the federal government has stealth bombers and nuclear weapons, it is hard to imagine what people would need to keep in the garage to serve that purpose.''
Robert Bork - On Larry King Live July 21,1994
"Well, it's a little ambiguous. It sounds in the first part as if it's, like, a right to join the militia, have a militia. And it sounds, in the second part, like an individual right to bear arms. ...I've always viewed it as a militia amendment, but there is an argument about that. I have to admit, it's not entirely clear... I don't know what-- today, I don't know how you would solve the question of what arms you're entitled to bear. Now that the Feds have nuclear weapons and stealth bombers, I don't know what it is you have to keep in the garage to fight them off."