Guns and colleges make formula for tragedy

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95. I'll answer you as directly as I can...

I believe that what has happened is the promotion of a right-wing ideology that seeks to deny the nature of our social contract and instead posit a libertarian vision in which the individual is held supreme over civil society and to use this as a political tool to bludgeon well-intended regulation that in truth protects the rights of the totality. I think that in Heller even Scalia wasn't quite sure what he meant when he proclaimed an individual right in the context of a social contract and as such had to hedge is bet. I think that such a proclamation is fundamentally a perversion of the clear meaning of the Second Amendment to allow the establishment of an organized, "well-regulated Militia" as sacrosanct to defending the country from foreign invasion and insurrection.

I believe that Scalia made an unfounded and activist judgment in proclaiming that the Second Amendment shall be construed as establishing an "individual right" where there had been none before, either implicitly or explicitly. Government ought to have the right to prohibit classes of ownership such as hate groups without needing to pass a standard of "strict scrutiny." There is no sacred right to bear arms in the Constitution; there is a right to be part of a "well-regulated Militia," that's it, and I don't believe that was intended to be defined as everyone from the Indian trader to merchant seaman. Government can restrict ownership to classes it deems prohibited so long as in totality the this right is not "infringed."

If you wish to call that a moronic opinion so be it, but at least I'm not turning a blind-eye to the arming of hate groups who exist solely to inspire fear in their fellow citizens.