A Law Can Be Both Economic Folly

It Would Also Be Strange To Find In The Midst Of A Catalog Of The Rights Of Individuals A Provision Securing To The States The Right To Maintain A Designated "militia." Dispassionate Scholarship Suggests Quite Strongly That The Right Of The People To Keep And Bear Arms Meant Just That.

The Attitude Of People Associating Guns With Nothing But Crime, That Is What Has To Be Changed. I Grew Up At A Time When People Were Not Afraid Of People With Firearms.

It Is Difficult To Maintain The Illusion That We Are Interpreting A Constitution, Rather Than Inventing One.

[t]he Enshrinement Of Constitutional Rights Necessarily Takes Certain Policy Choices Off The Table.... 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.

If You're Going To Be A Good And Faithful Judge, You Have To Resign Yourself To The Fact That You're Not Always Going To Like The Conclusions You Reach. If You Like Them All The Time, You're Probably Doing Something Wrong.