Can you guess what all this talk, talk, talk about gun control is doing?

[AnotherMcIntosh]

68. The reason why that doesn't support the statement is because the

headline found with the link is not supported by the text found with the link.

The headline and first line provides:

"former Chief Justice Burger - individual right to bear arms was “one of the greatest pieces of"

"fraud—I repeat the word ‘fraud’—on the American public by special interest groups that I have ever seen in my lifetime.”

That's followed by two words which show that the posted expressly admitted knowing that the subsequently posted quote did not originate from Burger:

"not Burger-"

Then, following the words "not Burger," there is a quote:

"Until that time (Heller), legal precedent and conventional wisdom held that the Second Amendment protected only a state’s right to maintain a militia, and not an individual’s right to bear arms independent of the state’s need for a militia. (The amendment provides, somewhat awkwardly and ambiguously, that “a well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”) In 1991, former Chief Justice Warren Burger, a conservative Republican, said that the idea that the Second Amendment protected an individual right to bear arms was “one of the greatest pieces of fraud—I repeat the word ‘fraud’—on the American public by special interest groups that I have ever seen in my lifetime.” Yet just seventeen years later, in Heller, five justices proclaimed that the Framers had intended to protect an individual right to bear arms."

Within the larger quote is a shorter one. One that is attributed to Burger, but without a link or other reference where Burger suposedly said the statement attributed to him:

“one of the greatest pieces of fraud—I repeat the word ‘fraud’—on the American public by special interest groups that I have ever seen in my lifetime.”

And you are going to accept the headline without any critical thinking? And post "Then allow me to help you."?

Somehow, I don't think that the posting of a link to quote attributed to Burger in a headline, but not supported an actual reference where Burger supposedly made a statement, is going to help anyone at all. Come back, if you ever find any actual evidence to show that the Supreme Court ever had the view that the 2nd Amendment was a collective right. Don't you think that if the Supreme Court had ever held that the 2nd Amendment was a collective right, the advocates for the collective-right position would have been able to find that by now? Wouldn't they have been able to find that by now? Don't rely upon people who just make things up. Be more sensible than that.