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Originally Posted by Statkowski
Sometimes all the book-learning that goes in one ear pushes the resident common sense out the other ear.
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That's as may be, but I'm telling you what could happen in the legal system as it exists, as it has existed for centuries, going back to the days when courts held session while armies fought on horseback, and the longbow was state of the art.
Look at the Commerce Clause, and tell me if you would have predicted Wickard v. Filburn. Read the text of the 2nd Amendment, and see if "shall not be infringed" means "we can ban entire classes of weapons, create broad groups of prohibited persons, ban imports, and tightly regulate all sales".
You want someone to blow sunshine up your dress, count me out. You want a guide into hostile territory, I'm here.
If you want serious craziness, go to Harvard, where they firmly believe that Marxism hasn't succeeded anywhere on Earth because they never went far enough with it.