[Ancesthntr]

But the enshrinement of constitutional rights necessarily takes certain policy choices off the table. These include the absolute prohibition of handguns held and used for self-defense in the home. Undoubtedly some think that the Second Amendment is outmoded in a society where our standing army is the pride of our Nation, where well-trained police forces provide personal security, and where gun violence is a serious problem. That is perhaps debatable, but what is not debatable is that it is not the role of this Court to pronounce the Second Amendment extinct.[Emphasis added]

At last, a majority opinion that recognizes that the Court is not the Congress or the People. THANK YOU, JUSTICE SCALIA!!!!!

[Still Thinking]

I actually disagreed partially with Bork's rejection of a Constitutional right to privacy. Granted he was asked because of the way it had been applied to abortion (wrongly, you can't kill someone in the privacy of your own home), but he seemed to buy into the concept that the Constitution enumerates our rights, rather than the powers of the government. Of course there's a personal right to privacy from the government whether it's explicitly stated or not! It's they who may not do a damn thing without Constitutional permission, not we who must scour it to find some phrase justifying our right to be free of government in some respect!