7th Circuit, Guns / Firearms, Quote of the Day, Richard Posner

Quote of the Day: The Word 'REGULATED' Is Also in the Second Amendment, If We're Being Technical About This Nonsense

Our militia could totally take King George III now!

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One doesn’t have to be a historian to realize that a right to keep and bear arms for personal self-defense in the 18th century could not rationally have been limited to the home.

— Judge Richard Posner of the Seventh Circuit, overturning an Illinois law prohibiting loaded weapons from being carried in public.

(Perhaps if Posner were a historian, he’d have remembered the whole “a well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state” clause that precedes our supposedly inviolable rights to carry around loaded hand cannons that pack the lethality of half of the Continental Army.)

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