Why Can't The State Accede To The

[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.

This Is So Absurd That It Has, To My Knowledge, Never Been Contemplated.

Nowhere Else In The Constitution Does A "right" Attributed To "the People" Refer To Anything Other Than An Individual Right. What Is More, In All Six Other Provisions Of The Constitution That Mention "the People," The Term Unambiguously Refers To All Members Of The Political Community, Not An Unspecified Subset... The Second Amendment Extends, Prima Facie, To All Instruments That Constitute Bearable Arms... The Very Text Of The Second Amendment Implicitly Recognizes The Pre-existence Of The Right And Declares Only That It "shall Not Be Infringed."

A Law Can Be Both Economic Folly And Constitutional.

You're Looking At Me As Though I'm Weird. My God! Are You So Out Of Touch With Most Of America, Most Of Which Believes In The Devil? I Mean, Jesus Christ Believed In The Devil! It's In The Gospels! You Travel In Circles That Are So, So Removed From Mainstream America That You Are Appalled That Anybody Would Believe In The Devil! Most Of Mankind Has Believed In The Devil, For All Of History. Many More Intelligent People Than You Or Me Have Believed In The Devil.