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The comment is at the 7 min mark.

https://apps.oyez.org/player/#/roberts2/oral_argument_audio/22521

Anthony M. Kennedy

--It had nothing to do with the concern of the remote settler to defend himself and his family against hostile Indian tribes and outlaws, wolves and bears and grizzlies and things like that?

Notice a very, very brief rustling in the background.

Walter E. Dellinger, III

--That is not the discourse that is part of the Second Amendment.

And when you read the debates, the congressional debates, the only use of the phrase "keep and bear arms" is a military phrase, and--

Antonin Scalia

Blackstone thought it was important.

Game over. For now.

For all the jubilation, remember, we/America won by ONE VOTE.

1 posted on 04/06/2024 5:57:38 PM PDT by DoodleBob
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To: DoodleBob

All nine of the other first ten amendments are individual rights.

Why would one of them be different?


2 posted on 04/06/2024 6:00:36 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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