Okay, I'm Sure i'll Get Flamed but

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40. Sorry, NO. Quill Pens Have Nothing to do w/ Free Speech

It is a ridiculous analogy.

One can stand on the corner, or in the town square and exercise free speech. No quill pen, no printing press required. The 1st Amendment doesn't say anything about the instruments of free speech.

The 2nd Amendment, on the other hand, specifically calls out the right to bear arms as part of a militia, not as an individual.

Here's what Bork had to say :


"I'm not an expert on the Second Amendment, but its intent was to guarantee the right of states to
form militia, not for individuals to bear arms." In the same lecture, he added that "assault weapons
could be banned under the Constitution," and that other restrictions on guns were constitutional.

In 1991, he went at the gun rights' lobby: "The National Rifle Association is always arguing that
the Second Amendment determines the right to bear arms. But I think it really is people's right to
bear arms in a militia. The NRA thinks that it protects their right to have Teflon-coated bullets.
But that's not the original understanding."

"The Second Amendment was designed to allow states to defend themselves against a possibly
tyrannical national government. Now that the federal government has stealth bombers and nuclear
weapons, it is hard to imagine what people would need to keep in the garage to serve that purpose."

Bork was actually being an honest, true conservative in his opinion and doing his best to interpret the Constitution as it was intended.