Originally Posted By: Goillini
With all due respect to King Brown, Politifact and the Washington Post are far from impartial fact checkers.


Goillini, while I agree with your assessment on "fact checkers", I disagree with your "all due respect" for King Brown. King has a long history here of almost blind allegiance to Liberal Left Anti-Gun politicians, and frequently quotes references that support or defend them and denigrate those who actually support our gun rights. Care to see King's idea of facts? How's this?

Originally Posted By: King Brown
Ed, historically the individual "right" to bear arms is relatively new. I believe John Ashcroft in 2002 became the first federal attorney-general to proclaim that individuals should be able to own guns. The Supreme Court in 2008 overturned all mainstream legal and historical scholarship by ruling that there is an individual right to own firearms although with some limits. Obama said it again last week.

I believe that during the previous 218 years the Second meant what it said: firearms shall be held by "the People"---a collective and not individual right---insofar they are in the service of "a well-regulated militia." Was an individual right even mentioned at the Constitutional Convention or in the House when it ratified the Amendment or when debated in state legislatures? I don't think so.


Of course, recalling and repeating a small fraction of King's frequent anti-gun rhetoric makes me mean, mischievous, and uncivil in some folks eyes. So be it.

A true sign of mental illness is any gun owner who would vote for an Anti-Gunner like Joe Biden.