One should not be standing in the hallway packing your kids off to school as if you are sending them off to war and wondering if you'll ever see them again, but here we are.
And you have SCOTUS to thank for it.
SCOTUS' deliberate and cynical misinterpretation of the 2nd Amendment is why we are here.
Originalists my ass.
The 2nd Amendment was written when "arms" meant swords, knives, spears, bows, smoothbore muzzle loaders, and farm implements.
Not fucking machine guns.
An originalist justice would know this.
And of course they knew it, but that gun lobby money sure is tasty. And addictive. It's the crack cocaine of lobbyist payouts.
@JolieSaboteuse Heller is possibly the most egregious and willfully ideological "originalist" misinterpretation of the Constitution in our nation's history. It was the true beginning of a disregard of stare decisis in the Roberts court, which will be that schmuck's legacy. And no matter what RBG thought of him as a person and friend, Scalia is the asshole most responsible for decisions that will take decades to overturn, if ever
@hallmarc A most reasonable summary of events.