Dems Display Contempt For 2nd Amendment At “Gun Violence” Forum

By Cam Edwards

It was billed as a forum on “gun violence,” but it turned into an hours-long rally for gun control that highlighted the contempt many of the Democrats running for president have toward the Second Amendment.

Beto O’Rourke, for example, lied about Antonin Scalia’s views about banning semi-automatic rifles. O’Rourke claimed that Scalia said in the Heller decision that there were some “understandable commonsense limits” to the 2nd Amendment. What Scalia actually wrote in the Heller opinion was that longstanding laws like those barring felons or those adjudicated mentally defective were presumably constitutional, but when it came to what types of guns could be banned, Scalia specifically stated that guns that are in common use fall under the protection of the 2nd Amendment. And as my guest Dave Kopel points out in today’s Bearing Arms Cam & Co., Scalia got even more specific about a ban on semi-automatic firearms in a written dissent (along with Clarence Thomas) to the SCOTUS decision not to hear a challenge to a ban in Highland Park, Illinois. It’s clear under the Heller decision that a ban on the most commonly sold rifle in …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms