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What Is A Moderate Interpretation Of The Text? Halfway Between What It Really Means And What You'd Like It To Mean?

There Is Nothing New In The Realization That The Constitution Sometimes Insulates The Criminality Of A Few In Order To Protect The Privacy Of Us All.

You Can't Come In Smugly And With Great Self Satisfaction And Say 'oh It's Torture, And Therefore It's No Good.' Is It Really So Easy To Determine That Smacking Someone In The Face To Determine Where He Has Hidden The Bomb That Is About To Blow Up Los Angeles Is Prohibited In The Constitution? It Would Be Absurd To Say You Couldn't Do That. And Once You Acknowledge That, We're Into A Different Game.

In The Eyes Of Government We Are Just One Race Here. It Is American.

Nowhere Else In The Constitution Does A "right" Attributed To "the People" Refer To Anything Other Than An Individual Right. What Is More, In All Six Other Provisions Of The Constitution That Mention "the People," The Term Unambiguously Refers To All Members Of The Political Community, Not An Unspecified Subset... The Second Amendment Extends, Prima Facie, To All Instruments That Constitute Bearable Arms... The Very Text Of The Second Amendment Implicitly Recognizes The Pre-existence Of The Right And Declares Only That It "shall Not Be Infringed."