Originally Posted by foxtrot
But that's not what he said and I don't think he's on the right track at all...with the exception of saying he'd want a gun for protection regardless of how the law sees that. This is what he said:
If your reason for supporting gun ownership involves loyalty to a document written hundreds of years ago by slave-owners with muskets, you probably have some explaining to do. Don’t include me in that camp.
This sentence tells me he pretty much has no grasp of the true meaning of the Constitution in general, or the Second Amendment specifically.
My interpretation of that is he believes the Constitution is outdated and flawed. "Slave-owners and muskets"? That's progressive code for "dead, rich white men wrote that" and "the framers couldn't possibly envisage modern guns like AR-15s"...the usual garbage that makes up the usual leftist argument that the Constitution being a living, breathing document. He didn't say anything about the SCOTUS.
A conservative, on the other hand, believes the Constitution says what it means. The Second Amendment allows us all to keep and bear arms, not because it was written by musket-owning slave-owners, but because they recognized that personal ownership of arms was of great value and a necessity to a truly free citizenry, for a variety of reasons...not the least of which was defense of self, home and property.
Originally Posted by foxtrot
Maybe. But I'd argue there are some generalities that can be inferred by looking at where some went to school...especially when they have a lifetime of writings to look at. If two people tell me they went to the state universities of Montana and Wyoming I'd say it would generally be pretty hard to determine any true political leanings. But if someone tells me they went to Berkeley I can practically guarantee that person is going to be left-leaning at a minimum, if not a full-blown communist...despite the fact some notable conservatives attended that school as well. Profiling can sometimes be pretty accurate.