Quote Originally Posted by BrunswickDawg View Post
I've thought that it was interesting Scalia - potentially the most conservative Justice ever to serve on the Supreme Court - believed in the the ability of the government to regulate firearms, writing in Heller “Nothing in our opinion should be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms", “like most rights, the right secured by the Second Amendment is not unlimited.” It is “not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose.”
There would be a lot more people rocking gatling guns if this was the case. Who doesn't want to walk around with the gun from Predator? The Constitution was written at a time that a gun gave you the ability to get food as much as anything else. The fore fathers didn't have an idea automatic weapons were a thing. It would be like if the government eliminated any gun that could shoot more than once an hour and someone had a death ray that could level a city. People would still say the death ray was legal and fight for it.