Errors Abound In ‘Constitutional Law’ Professor’s Anti-Gun Video

By Tom Knighton

Brennan Center for Justice President Michael Waldman is probably a smart man. He’s a constitutional law professor, after all, and the unintelligent don’t normally get into law school.

Of course, intelligence doesn’t stop people from being stupid, and that’s pretty much what Waldman is when he spouts nonsense like this.

Well, isn’t that quite special?

However, as Hot Air‘s Taylor Millard notes, it may sound good, but it has no basis in reality.

Waldman’s argument is certainly persuasive from an emotional standpoint. But it’s not completely accurate from a historical standpoint.

He is correct in saying there were Founders who believed the ability to own firearms would protect people from a tyrannical government. St. George Tucker confirmed this in his 1803 View of the Constitution of the United States by saying it was a “palladium of liberty.”

“The right of self defense is the first law of nature: in most government it has been the study of rules to confirm this right within …Read the Rest

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