We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2010 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/lookit_what_the.html Sat, 24 Mar 2012 15:42:31 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification ...about the 2nd Amendment. To summarize, we conclude that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to keep and bear arms. That right existed prior to the formation of the new government under the Constitution and was premised on the private use of arms for activities such as hunting and self-defense, the latter being understood as resistance to either private lawlessness or the depredations of a tyrannical government (or a threat from abroad). In addition, the right to keep and bear arms had the important and salutary civic purpose of helping to preserve the citizen militia. The civic purpose was... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/lookit_what_the.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/lookit_what_the.html Fri, 09 Mar 2007 11:53:51 -0600 W00t Hoot t00t! Oh Frabjous Day! Calloo Callay! [Jtg jumps up and down, hurts head on ceiling, sprains both ankles when landing, doesn't care, squeaks, giggles, sings Star Spangled Banner] (yah, I can sing it in pretty good pitch, even at my age) http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/lookit_what_the.html#comment-57672 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/lookit_what_the.html#comment-57672 Sat, 10 Mar 2007 01:43:48 -0600 The Brady gun-grabbers are mad as hornets. They are claiming this to be "judicial activism," because it overturns a local law from the bench. Funny how judges who overturn local laws are labeled thusly only when such laws would take guns from our hands. In the converse, such judges are lauded for protecting lives. Convenient. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/lookit_what_the.html#comment-57670 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/lookit_what_the.html#comment-57670 Sat, 10 Mar 2007 00:37:14 -0600 I'm shocked! I'd have bet money that a DC court would rather claim there was no second amendment than give an honest interpretation. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/lookit_what_the.html#comment-57649 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/lookit_what_the.html#comment-57649 Fri, 09 Mar 2007 15:01:23 -0600 Interesting ramifications Especially around here currently.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/lookit_what_the.html#comment-57640 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/lookit_what_the.html#comment-57640 Fri, 09 Mar 2007 13:09:17 -0600