Dr. Bombay is convinced that I’m going to walk in one day and, much to his delight, burn my Right Wing Conspiracy Membership Card in front of our Torts class. That’s not about to happen, but several beliefs of my conservative brethren do give me pause.
Since BigShow has joined in the fray here at Fight The Hypo and since the Supreme Court is in the middle of considering its first Second Amendment case in decades I thought I’d begin the painful process of revealing my drift from certain tenets of modern conservative orthodoxy (to the extent one can “confess” to something pseudonymously anyway).
Let me start with a gross generalization… why is it that the very people who support limits on First Amendment rights oppose limits on Second Amendment rights? It’s as if some say, “No, you can’t burn that flag, but here’s an AK-47 to protect yourself and, in the meantime, hunt some deer.”
Say what? Hopefully we’ll hear from our Second Amendment friends on this, but hear me out…
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