@imrightPHD @TuckerCNews Seriously? Seems like we can afford to spend money on DEI crap, foreign wars, and illegal invaders. Why not the men and women who pledged their lives to defend the USA?
#2A and Federal Judge Diane Wood's Dissent: My thought: "I can explain it to her, but I cannot understand it for her."
The following language is seriously from 7th Circuit Judge Diane Wood's dissent in today's 2A case. Judge Wood wrote this about the "in common use" test in gun ban cases... "The Court’s reference to historical tradition indicates that the relevant time for the “common use” inquiry is WHEN THE SECOND AMENDMENT WAS ADOPTED, not when the current lawsuit arose." Well, is Judge Wood correct about this? Let's go the record.....
To begin, perhaps Judge Wood is unfamiliar with the work of an obscure court sitting in Washington, D.C., which those familiar with the U.S. Constitution refer to as the United States Supreme Court. If Judge Wood were familiar with that court, then perhaps she would also be familiar with, among other things, a 2008 ruling called Heller and a 2016 ruling Caetano v. MA. Heller and Caetano said, “the Second Amendment extends, prima facie, to all instruments that constitute bearable arms, even those THAT WERE NOT in existence at the time of the founding.”
Moreover, Heller said that, "Some have made the argument, BORDERING ON THE FRIVOLOUS, that only those arms in existence in the 18th century are protected by the Second Amendment. We do not interpret constitutional rights that way. Just as the First
Amendment protects modern forms of communications, e.g., Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union, 521 U. S. 844, 849 (1997), and the Fourth Amendment applies to modern forms of search, e.g., Kyllo v. United States, 533 U. S. 27, 35–36 (2001), the Second Amendment extends, prima facie, to all instruments that constitute bearable arms,
even those that were not in existence at the time of the founding."