Former Chief Justice Warren Burger, a conservative Republican appointed by Nixon, back when conservatives weren’t so batshit crazy.
Quote:
BURGER: If I were writing the Bill of Rights now, there wouldn’t be any such thing as the Second Amendment.
REPORTER: Which says?
BURGER: That a well regulated militia, being necessary for the defense of the state, that people’s rights to bear arms [shall not be infringed]. This has been the subject of one of the greatest pieces of fraud – I repeat the word fraud – on the American public by special interest groups that I have ever seen in my lifetime.
Now, just look at those words. There are only three lines to that amendment. A “well regulated militia.” If the militia, which was going to be the state army, was going to be well regulated, why shouldn’t 16 and 17 and 18 or any other aged persons be regulated in the use of arms the way an automobile is regulated?
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