2a. Heller explicitly ensconces a Second Amendment right to armed self defense. There is nothing implicit about it, nor is it in any penumbra. See Holding 1: "The Second Amendment protects an individual right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia, and to use that arm for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home."
3. Hotly contested. Armies of statisticians are arguing over this. All that can be said concretely is the wild claims of turning traffic stops into Old West shootouts have failed to come to pass. If you ask me, that's vindication enough, but hey.
4. Most violent crime is impulsive, poorly planned, and the product of a violent personality with little in the way of impulse control. These are not the sorts of people who rationally think "hey, this gun-free zone would be a great place to go on a rampage." Highly organized violent predators are an extraordinary statistical anomaly, for which we should all be grateful. (The Virginia Tech shooter was one such anomaly.)
5. "Most" is a hard road to hoe, given the sheer number of gun control laws out there, and the fact it's phrased universally. For instance, gun control laws in the UK were originally enacted not out of racist tendencies, but to attempt to suppress the IRA. Didn't work out too well for them. It would be more accurate to say that "many early gun control laws were overtly racist in nature."
7. The Guard has existed for a few centuries. In the era of the Framers, civilians who were fully trained for military duties and could be called up by the monarch on demand to serve as an army were known as members of "select corps", or "elite corps". This also goes to argue against the National Guard-style interpretation of the Second Amendment: if the Framers meant the Guard, they would have said "a well-regulated select corps...".
10. Not true. The Second Amendment has been raised in other cases before Heller, just not directly. Miller was also not dead, he was in hiding. It is true that his case was not pleaded before the Court, due to some spectacularly ... unusual ... hijinks.
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2a. Heller explicitly ensconces a Second Amendment right to armed self defense. There is nothing implicit about it, nor is it in any penumbra. See Holding 1: "The Second Amendment protects an individual right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia, and to use that arm for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home."
3. Hotly contested. Armies of statisticians are arguing over this. All that can be said concretely is the wild claims of turning traffic stops into Old West shootouts have failed to come to pass. If you ask me, that's vindication enough, but hey.
4. Most violent crime is impulsive, poorly planned, and the product of a violent personality with little in the way of impulse control. These are not the sorts of people who rationally think "hey, this gun-free zone would be a great place to go on a rampage." Highly organized violent predators are an extraordinary statistical anomaly, for which we should all be grateful. (The Virginia Tech shooter was one such anomaly.)
5. "Most" is a hard road to hoe, given the sheer number of gun control laws out there, and the fact it's phrased universally. For instance, gun control laws in the UK were originally enacted not out of racist tendencies, but to attempt to suppress the IRA. Didn't work out too well for them. It would be more accurate to say that "many early gun control laws were overtly racist in nature."
7. The Guard has existed for a few centuries. In the era of the Framers, civilians who were fully trained for military duties and could be called up by the monarch on demand to serve as an army were known as members of "select corps", or "elite corps". This also goes to argue against the National Guard-style interpretation of the Second Amendment: if the Framers meant the Guard, they would have said "a well-regulated select corps...".
10. Not true. The Second Amendment has been raised in other cases before Heller, just not directly. Miller was also not dead, he was in hiding. It is true that his case was not pleaded before the Court, due to some spectacularly ... unusual ... hijinks.