Boldface mine:
As to "what kind of restrictions the government could constitutionally place" on gun ownership, here is my proposed list of restrictions:
Court Weighs Right to Guns, and Its LimitsNewly recognized right? "New" since, like, 1789? RTFC, asswits.
LINDA GREENHOUSE | Published: March 19, 2008
WASHINGTON - A majority of the Supreme Court appeared ready on Tuesday to embrace, for the first time in the country's history, an interpretation of the Second Amendment that protects the right to own a gun for personal use.
That may be the easy part.
The harder question in the case challenging the District of Columbia's handgun ban is what kind of restrictions the government could constitutionally place, in the name of public safety, on the newly recognized right. The answer to that question, on which the outcome of the case will turn, was less clear.
As to "what kind of restrictions the government could constitutionally place" on gun ownership, here is my proposed list of restrictions:
- Don't shoot anyone who doesn't deserve to be shot.
- Umm.... well, that about covers it.
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