Like most rights, the Second Amendment right is not unlimited. It is not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose: For example, concealed weapons prohibitions have been upheld under the Amendment or state analogues. The Court’s opinion should not be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms.-as if this would head off foolish assertions of 2nd amendment rights.
Oh, Scalia - how little you know your fellow Americans:
Atlanta airport gun ban is challenged (LA Times)
ATLANTA -- The showdown over gun rights spilled into the nation's busiest airport Tuesday after a Georgia legislator announced that he would walk into the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport carrying a handgun.
This should be an interesting discussion: Law-and-order conservatives vs. gun rights conservatives.
My money's on law and order. I can't wait to see this turkey in cuffs screaming about his rights.
(H/t to E)
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