For Heller, thank the scholarship of Joyce Lee Malcolm
Arlington, Va.– In the hours after February’s school massacre in Parkland, Fla., Joyce Lee Malcolm watched the response with growing annoyance:
“Everybody seemed to leap upon it, looking for a political benefit, rather than allowing for a cooling-off period.” As a historian, Malcolm prefers to take the long view. As a leading scholar of the Second Amendment, however, she is also expected to have snap opinions on gun rights, and in fact she often has engaged in the news-driven debates about violence and firearms. “Something deep inside of me says that people never should be victims,” she says. “And they never should be put in the position of being disarmed by their government.”
The left lies about everything. Truth is a liberal value, and truth is a conservative value, but it has never been a left-wing value. People on the left say whatever advances their immediate agenda. Power is their moral lodestar; therefore, truth is always subservient to it. - Dennis Prager
Excellent read. I'm happy to see that she understands why the 2nd amendment is in the constitution and how it is still very relevant today. It's amazing how many people out there don't.
I ordered her book. As soon as I read it I'll review it for youse guys.
I was thinking about seeing if her To Keep and Bear Arms and Guns and Violence: The English Experience were both available on my Kindle.
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I ordered her book. As soon as I read it I'll review it for youse guys.
I was thinking about seeing if her To Keep and Bear Arms and Guns and Violence: The English Experience were both available on my Kindle.
To Keep and Bear Arms isn't available on Kindle. I looked.
Bummer
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She said that currently the militia is the National Guard. Wrong!! She needs to do more research and get her facts straight on exactly who the militia is.
"When democracy turns to tyranny, the armed citizen still gets to vote." Mike Vanderboegh
"The Smallest Minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities." – Ayn Rand
anygunanywhere wrote:She said that currently the militia is the National Guard. Wrong!! She needs to do more research and get her facts straight on exactly who the militia is.
If Scalia quoted her 3 times in the Heller decision... I'm gonna give her some slack.
I am not a lawyer. This is NOT legal advice.! Nothing tempers idealism quite like the cold bath of reality.... SQLGeek
