Of course they aren’t protected. Why Ol’ Ben Franklin had barely invented electricity by that point, there’s no way the Founders could have foreseen lightning guns.
The idea that the only constitutionally protected civilian weapons commonly in use at the time of Heller dicta is pernicious. I, for one, want my phased plasma rifle, whenever it gets invented.
Anything which can be used as a weapon is protected, but that’s not the point. The question is not whether a right to possess any particular object or substance is specifically protected. The question is whether any of this is any of government’s proper business. It isn’t.
August 12th, 2015 at 11:19 am
Of course they aren’t protected. Why Ol’ Ben Franklin had barely invented electricity by that point, there’s no way the Founders could have foreseen lightning guns.
August 12th, 2015 at 3:09 pm
The idea that the only constitutionally protected civilian weapons commonly in use at the time of Heller dicta is pernicious. I, for one, want my phased plasma rifle, whenever it gets invented.
August 12th, 2015 at 5:16 pm
Anything which can be used as a weapon is protected, but that’s not the point. The question is not whether a right to possess any particular object or substance is specifically protected. The question is whether any of this is any of government’s proper business. It isn’t.
August 13th, 2015 at 10:52 am
So, the police are guilty of torture or something?