A closer look: How many school shootings since Newtown?

[gejohnston]

59. Your sig were not Burger's words

Some gun control group put those words in his mouth.
You completely ignored the main point of Kopel's, who is a registered Democrat and voted for Ralph Nader, critique of your favorite Nixon appointee.

BTW, none of these are "liberal cities". They might have a mayor with a D by his name, but I wouldn't describe them as liberal. They are violent, corrupt, mismanaged, but not liberal.
the cities I listed specifically were Chicago, Oakland, NOLA, DC. I did not mention LA nor NY. By pointing out their corruption and mismanagement makes me a bad Democrat? Does that also mean calling James Buchannan a lousy president homophobic? Historians agree that he sucked as president.
When mayors of Detroit and NOLA are convicted of corruption and ripping off the city treasury, not to mention Chicago's well documented gang/alderman machine reminiscent of Boss Tweed, it is not bashing. It is speaking truth to power. I don't care what letter is by the mayor's name or who most of the people vote for. A shithole is a shithole and a crook is a crook. Only the stupidest and most dishonest ideologues would disagree. Yet another pointless personal attack.

Did you actually read Burger's article? He did not write those words in Parade magazine. Here is a quote:

Americans also have a right to defend their homes, and we need not challenge that. Nor does anyone seriously question that the Constitution protects the right of hunters to own and keep sporting guns for hunting game any more than anyone would challenge the right to own and keep fishing rods and other equipment for fishing -- or to own automobiles. To "keep and bear arms" for hunting today is essentially a recreational activity and not an imperative of survival, as it was 200 years ago; "Saturday night specials" and machine guns are not recreational weapons and surely are as much in need of regulation as motor vehicles.

Basically, he agreed with Heller. Machine guns need as much regulation as motor vehicles? A chief justice was not aware handguns are regulated on the federal level more than automobiles? That machine guns were then, and still are, even more regulated than either one? He didn't know about the NFA? He was on the court when the GCA was passed, he should know better. Car ownership is not regulated, only their operation on public roads is.

Americans should ask themselves a few questions. The Constitution does not mention automobiles or motorboats, but the right to keep and own an automobile is beyond question; equally beyond question is the power of the state to regulate the purchase or the transfer of such a vehicle and the right to license the vehicle and the driver with reasonable standards. In some places, even a bicycle must be registered, as must some household dogs.

Registration of cars, bikes, and dogs are simply a means for county and city governments to collect revenue, and no other reason. Dogs require proof of rabies shots, but that's it. The purpose has nothing to do with public safety. Apples and oranges.
Please, learn to read with comprehension. After you do that, reread Kopel's critique. It does not say what you think it does.