Is California a Slaveholding State? Elitist judicial snob Stephen Reinhardt, of the Ninth District Court of Black-Robed Clowns, last week agreed with the assessment of Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney, author of the Dred Scott decision. Reinhardt wrote, and I quote: "...the Second Amendment does not confer an individual right to own or possess arms". Therefore, it follows that Reinhardt would categorically deny the Right of an American black to possess firearms. Taney wrote a similar opinion denying black Americans the Right to Keep and Bear Arms: "...[citizenship] would give to persons of the negro race, who were recognised as...