Supreme Court Justice Ruth Ginsburg on the Second Amendment (and Heller a bit)

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106. The Bill of Rights has an expiration date? Or just the parts you woke up hating?

This sounds a bit more like the excuses of a politician, instead of considered opinion.

Since we are being liberal about our definitions, let's take a little time pill and go back to the framer's table, and know that when they said "militia" - and, regardless of some contentions, the US wasn't the first god damn nation ever established - and militia meant "all able-bodied men who are not members of the Army or Navy". So whether there was an army or navy then, the militia was separate from that.

and "its function is to enable the young nation to have people who will fight for it to have weapons that those soldiers will own" < That's precisely what is happening today - judging by the military style weapons that frequent people's mantles. Well, where the mantle would be. But that was back then when we had muskets.

Thank you for playing.

Anyway, the freedom to keep guns was something that distinguished this country from so many other. So much so that keeping guns has become synonymous with freedom through most of the center of the country. As long as that association is there, you might as well figure on a war of attrition, because it will take 2 or 3 lifetimes to rid us of the 300 million+ guns that are in homes.

Seen the headlines? Since Evilhair started his campaign of hatred for president, gun permit requests are higher than ever.

Besides, the soon to be seen water wars, the disruptions in our food supply and cities going underwater are going to overshadow the few killings from this. Assuming we aren't hit by a biological attack that kills a couple million people, which is likely just a matter of time.

Those conflagrations will make us forget all of this.