Some history of 2nd Amendment scholarship. Very interesting reading.
The Truth about the Second Amendment
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In a nutshell.these transformations did not represent a novel revolution in meaning or interpretation but rather a much-needed restoration
...a good deal of the spadework that led us to Parker, Heller, and the rest was done on the left — by “leading liberal law professors” such as Sanford Levinson, Laurence Tribe, and Akhil Reed Amar, all of whom came gradually “to embrace the view that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to own guns.”
..as Levinson had put it in 1989 in his influential Yale Law Journal article “The Embarrassing Second Amendment,” “the best explanation for the absence of the Second Amendment from the legal consciousness of the elite bar, including that component found in the legal academy, is derived from a mixture of sheer opposition to the idea of private ownership of guns and the perhaps subconscious fear that altogether plausible, perhaps even ‘winning,’ interpretations of the Second Amendment would present real hurdles to those of us supporting prohibitory regulation.”
In other words, they harked back to the original meaning of "liberal" as in free, permissive, against restrictions. If only more were like that.Ironbear wrote:Interesting parts for me......a good deal of the spadework that led us to Parker, Heller, and the rest was done on the left — by “leading liberal law professors” such as Sanford Levinson, Laurence Tribe, and Akhil Reed Amar, all of whom came gradually “to embrace the view that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to own guns.”
Holland&Holland wrote:Good luck with that today. Liberals used to be pro America, now I am not sure what they are.
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