[Leisler]

Michael Bellesiles's Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture, a book of embarrassing lies, distortions and factual errors is defended and supported here by the Ravove here.

[The Raven]

Question:

If libs simply ignore the parts of the Constitution they don't like, I suggest we simply ignore their "court decisions."

[an amused spectator]

Great stuff!

Rakove: "...Second, it would be difficult to identify any clause of the Constitution more open to the common sense objection that its modern interpretation should not be rooted in the concept of "original intent" or "original understanding," simply because firearms are now far more devastating than anyone in the eighteenth century could have plausibly imagined."

Thirdly, it would be difficult to identify any clause of the Constitution more open to the common sense objection that its modern interpretation should not be rooted in the concept of "original intent" or "original understanding," simply because free speech, via the Internet, can now be far more devastating than anyone in the eighteenth century could have plausibly imagined. ;-)