Larry Pratt, executive director of Gun Owners of America, said Sunday that Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was wrong to assume that the government had the right to place limits on the Second Amendment. ”He was not speaking from a constitutional perspective,” Pratt said.
“The amendment does provide it’s own degree of scrutiny: It says, ‘shall not be infringed,’” Pratt said on “Fox News Sunday” after host Chris Wallace read a quote from a 2008 case in which Scalia wrote that the Second Amendment was not “unlimited.”
First off, when you’re to the right of Antonin Scalia, you’re way the hell and gone out in Lala Land.
Second, the amendment also says “well-regulated,” which you’ve got to assume means… well… regulated pretty well. Regulations are legal limits and Scalia is right; the Constitution does allow limits on gun ownership — in fact, it specifically requires them.
