President Obama Lays Down The Law On Guns

Barack Obama responds to Second Amendment-obsessed critics.

(Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

(Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

I taught Constitutional law… I know a little bit about it.

— President Barack Obama at this afternoon’s press conference discussing the inevitable “Second Amendment” complaints over his latest round of executive orders to tighten gun regulations.

Before the Twittersphere erupted in a hail of right-wing jeering about Obama’s loony interpretation of the Second Amendment, it would’ve been worth pausing to remember that no less a conservative than Chief Justice Warren Burger branded the NRA’s “laissez-faire Second Amendment” theory “one of the greatest pieces of fraud, I repeat the word ‘fraud,’ on the American public by special interest groups that I have ever seen in my lifetime.”

But Burger only taught contracts, so what did he know?

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