Are stun guns 'arms?'
-Do they have a military or police application in delivering force to their opposition?
-Do they have a self-defense application in delivering force to an attacker?
There ya go
"the 2nd Amendment does not apply to stun guns because they are "a thoroughly modern invention""
For the love of Pete, when is SCOTUS going to start defending
Heller? This kind of bass-ackwards reasoning has got to stop. It's been very clearly written that chronology has exactly nothing to do with a constitutional right's applicability, and yet this moronic "flintlock muskets" nonsense keeps getting trotted out, by higher and higher courts of law as SCOTUS sits on its hands. To be honest, I would much prefer they contradict
Heller at this point if that's what the makeup of the court has come to, clarify the issue, and get the ball rolling, than endure this gradual draining of the ruling's (and by proxy, the High Court's) authority.
A second question would be why the exact points I raised at the start of my post were ignored with a hand-wave by the court; I would like to think the defense brought them up in arguments, but perhaps they were prevented from doing so somehow. Perhaps the court truly ignored the entire argument of the defense and inserted their own preconceived argument instead.
I'm sorry, but if a court in Texas held that blacks cannot own property because they aren't human beings or American citizens in an imminent domain case, the ruling and careers of everyone involved in the ruling would be destroyed by the higher courts immediately upon appeal, if not jailed for abuse of their official capacity. Dragging the old technology argument into a RKBA ruling is
literally the same kind of antiquated, bigoted thinking which refuses to recognize a very clear modern precedent, out of pure judicial prejudice.
With nearly 60% of Americans believing guns are useful for self defense, perhaps --like the question of blacks' humanity-- a new amendment is in order, explicitly protecting the human right to self defense from legal restriction.
TCB
