... Whether Gov’t Can Regulate Some Types of Guns“What the opinion in Heller said is that it will have to be decided in future cases, what limitations upon the right to keep and bear arms are permissible,“ Scalia said on ”Fox News Sunday,” referring to the 2008 decision in District of Columbia v. Heller that protected the right to possess firearms.
“Some [limitations] undoubtedly are because there were some that were acknowledged at the time,” he continued. “There was a tort called a ”frighting” which if you carried around a really horrible weapon just to scare people, like a head ax or something, that was I believe a misdemeanor. So yes there are some limitations that can be imposed, what they are will depend on what the society understood were reasonable limitations at the time.”
UFB. How on earth could it possibly be known that any weapon is carried "just to scare people"?! And so what? Is there a right to not be frightened? 'Cause Obama and his merry band of thugs violates that "right" every damn day.
And, psssst to Scalia: "it" has already been decided; see "shall not be infringed".
People, neither the courts nor elections are going to save us.
BTW, I listened this morning to this interview and Scalia spent most of the time mocking Wallace. (Fox News Sunday)
Drudge has it as well.
