“Remember, the Constitution, the Second Amendment, was never absolute,” Biden said. “You couldn’t buy a cannon when the Second Amendment was passed. You couldn’t go out and purchase a lot of weapons.”
Liar.
But that remark about "no right is absolute" appeared in some SCOTUS opinion (Heller? ) and has always irked me because, while technically correct (incarceration, execution), it implies there are no limits to the limitations that can be placed on rights.
As I figured, antis can seize upon it with abandon; I wish there had been some limitation on the offhanded SCOTUS remark in that regard.
As I said before, the Second Amendment is perhaps the shortest and most concise proscriptive clause in the whole Constitution, so I always figured they really, really meant what they said.
And in fact, just to prevent "misconstruction" of the Constitution, they added those ten amendments to it just to be hard-line specific about their intent.
Terry, 230RN
REF:
Preamble to the "Bill Of Rights."