"Fulfulling its duty to defend its laws..."
If the law struck down by a court was one opposed by the
LA Times, the jurisdiction would be wrong to appeal the
court's decision.
".... danger ... radical ... reasonable ...."
The danger lies in laws that disarm the law abiding and embolden the
criminal. The radical position is the stance taken in the 1930s taht
the 2A was a "collective" right: for over 100 years the courts had
treated the right to keep and bear arms like the right to vote: see
the Cruikshank decision 1873 or the debates on the 1870 Civil Rights
Act. Antigunners support prohibition and reasonable to prohibitionists
is bans like Washington DC.
The first clause is a reason--but not a limiting reason--why the
government should support the RKBA.
The individual rights model of the 2A is the Standard Model which
existed before the 1930s and has been championed in legal and
historical journals since then and long before the election of
GWBush. 1930 to 2000 saw,what, EIGHTY peer-reviewed articles
published in refereed academic journals supporting the Standard
Model?
Miller 1939--Miller himself was dead, his lawyer did not make an
appearance, essentially the "prosecution" presented the government's
case without a "defense", and one judge Reynolds wrote a decision.
If a decision had been handed down under such circumstances on
a cause that LA Times supported, it would be labelled a miscarriage
of justice. But it was not Reynolds who described the "militia" so
broadly--it was every militia act or law from the time of the
revolution that described the militia "so broadly."
U.S. Code of Laws, Title 10, Subtitle A, PART I, CHAPTER 13,
Section 311. Militia: composition and classes
(a) The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied
males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in
section 313 of title 32, under 45 years of age who are, or who
have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of
the United States and of female citizens of the United States
who are members of the National Guard.
(b) The classes of the militia are--
(1) the organized militia, which consists of the National
Guard and the Naval Militia; and
(2) the unorganized militia, which consists of the members of
the militia who are not members of the National Guard or
the Naval Militia.
THE US CODE OF LAW described the MILITIA "broadly" not the
1939 court. The definition cited by Silberman is the USC definition.
The LA Times calls for ignoring the Constituion at the LA Times'
convenience. That is not how a democratic constitutional republic
is supposed to work. Support and defend the Constitution first.