Virginia Tech anniversary creates difficult moment on gun control for lawmakers

[Atypical Liberal]

39. No matter how many times you try and put words in my mouth, it won't work.

But like I said, if it makes you feel better to think that the SC and the president struck down part of the Constitution, knock yourself out.

The Supreme Court did not unanimously rule - there are 3 different opinions in Heller and there is nothing unanimous about it. Cites please!

But the justices were unanimous in their opinion that the right to keep and bear arms was an individual right. You can look it up yourself.

This still tells us nothing about the scope of the Second Amendment in regards to the restrictions that all 9 SCTOUS members agree exist.

And this will no doubt be decided by future law. What we do know is that you don't have to belong to a militia to exercise your individual right to keep and bear arms and there is no such militia to join if you wanted to.

you take "absurd" positions for the sake of hyperbole.

Yup, but this is not one of them.

I have no desire at this moment to debate an extremist position at length regarding the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution.

You won't answer because you are afraid. You see the trap before you and you refuse to step into it. Once you admit what role the decentralized militias were to fulfill you can no longer argue what role the people were to fulfill.

And you know it. Your argument is shot. Run away to your baseball game.