guillaume: Scalia, with his disingenuous and nonsensical interpretation of the so-called original intent of the Founders with regards to the Second Amendment, is the enabler of the violence. Whether this was his intent or not, his ridiculously tortured interpretation is now the official cover for all who advocate for the right to carry any weapon anywhere.
Concur; for a Canadian (iirc) you're pretty sharp on this. I would only add that the election/selection of GWBush (puppet of puppeteer DCheney) did more to enable scalia to this decision than scalia could've been personally responsible for, for had Al Gore been properly the president, the corruption of the true intent of the 2nd amendment could not have occurred.
GWBush put both rightwing nutjob Sam Alito on the supreme court, as well as more moderate John Roberts. Two GWBush appointees which would've should've been more liberal justices, & rightwing nutjob gura would never have been able to subvert 2ndA.
I will add I wasn't at all disappointed to hear of scalia's sudden passing in the night, indeed I removed him from my H2D2 list (clue: juxtapose dead & hope & drops & he). The other two remain on the list.
It would be one thing if Scalia had gotten the historical analysis of the Second Amendment correct in Heller. But the tragic fact is that he got it so thoroughly wrong.
As former Justice John Paul Stevens noted in his lengthy dissenting opinion in Heller, Scalia’s exegesis not only rendered the opening “militia clause” of the Second Amendment meaningless, but he also distorted and underplayed the importance of the actual debates conducted during the founding era on the amendment’s purpose and meaning. Those debates, Stevens forcefully argued, focused not on personal gun ownership but on the state militia, which the founders viewed as an antidote to a burdensome and potentially oppressive permanent standing federal army.
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