Stanford law prof: Second Amendment is about restricting gun rights

The Daily Caller.com ^ | 1/30/2014 | Robby Soave

[rktman]

A Stanford University law professor took the view that the Second Amendment permits strong gun control, telling the crowd that “restriction has to be at the core” of the right to carry a gun.

John J. Donohue, a member of the Stanford Law School faculty, made his remarks during a debate with attorney Donald Kilmer, an adjunct professor at Lincoln Law School of San Jose.

“I support the right to self-defense,” said Donohue during the debate, according to The Stanford Review. “But that doesn’t mean that you have a right to high-capacity magazines.”

[rktman]

Comprehension skills.....ZERO Dumbass using the tired argument that the founders never envisioned today's modern weapons. But then again, he is a college professor so he must be real real smart. Either that or he slept at a Holiday Inn Express last night.

[Travis McGee]

[reegs]

And by his logic, censorship is completely constitutional as the founding fathers couldn’t have anticipated the computer and the internet when they wrote the 1st Amendment.

[Da Coyote]

I was once foolish enough to think that lawyers were pretty sharp.

Thankfully, the Obamadork, the Holderfelon, and multiple “professors of law” have erased that incorrect conclusion.

[Scrambler Bob]

high-capacity magazines = putting more cartridges in the magazine than it will reliably feed.

Otherwise it is standard capacity.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Whenever I want an explanation of the RKBA, I turn to a professor at Stanford (yeah, right.)

[molson209]

Try the good old Global Warming fact strategy

[PowderMonkey]

“But that doesn’t mean that you have a right to high-capacity magazines.”

I guess I missed that part of the 2nd amendment wording. Must have been next to the section where it says the people can only own single shot muzzle loading flintlocks.

[Noumenon]

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The lesson on offer: there is only one way to stop these monsters and those who enable them. Only one way.

[IronJack]

Only a liberal could interpret “shall not be infringed” as advocating control.

[BitWielder1]

It makes sense - if you subscribe to the upside down world of liberals, where rights are wrong and wrongs are right.

[JimRed]

“I support the right to self-defense,” said Donohue during the debate, according to The Stanford Review. “But that doesn’t mean that you have a right to high-capacity magazines.”

So, professor, that means that you do not have the right to be able to defend yourself against multiple assailants, or against government forces armed with high capacity magazines?

[Puppage]

Comprehension skills.....ZERO Dumbass using the tired argument that the founders never envisioned today's modern weapons.

Exactly!

So, with that thought process do we now restrict the First Amendment because The Founders never envisioned the internet?

[rktman]

Drop that “eye” phone and step away.

[Dead Corpse]

Well... Assuming this guy isn’t cut from the same cloth as Michale Bellisiles... Then he is clinically insane.

Of course, if he is, then he’s a fraud and needs to be fired immediately.

[Dead Corpse]

Hi cap magazines.

The Prof should look up when the Puckle gun was invented.

[rktman]

LOL! Right. Fire a college prof? Now that’s funny.

[faucetman]

Everyone should just laugh, in people like these, faces. To actually believe the things they do, they have to deny reality. I can’t say they are “ignorant”, because these are educated people. Another word comes to mind that is perfect.

ASININE

1.
extremely stupid or foolish.
“Lydia ignored his asinine remark”

synonyms: stupid, foolish, brainless, mindless, senseless, idiotic, imbecilic, ridiculous, ludicrous, absurd, nonsensical, fatuous, silly, inane, witless, empty-headed; informal, half-witted, dimwitted, dumb, moronic
“an asinine stunt”

[Dead Corpse]

I guess we could just set him on fire.

I think the time has come for options to be considered.

[TexasFreeper2009]

quote “restriction has to be at the core” of the right to carry a gun”

hm... lets play a game liberals...

lets replace “carry a gun” with “have an abortion” (which isn’t even in the constitution” and see how you feel about such a statement!