"The Second Amendment as Ordinary Constitutional Law"

An interesting read, written by Glenn Reynolds from UTenn College of Law.



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A few excerpts:



“If the right to own a gun is protected by the Constitution, then

efforts to treat it as, in effect, a deviant act must be disfavored, and

those in terrorrem aspects now look more like efforts to chill the

exercise of a protected right.”



“Though the state might prefer to sacrifice citizens’ lives and safety in

order to limit gun ownership, such a sacrifice is not permitted. This

indicates that individual citizens’ lives and autonomy are

themselves, in some important aspects, beyond the power of the

state to sacrifice.”



Those would make many anti-2A heads explode like pumpkins filled with tannerite...

"The Second Amendment as Ordinary Constitutional Law"