{"id":90456,"date":"2023-03-02T07:49:41","date_gmt":"2023-03-02T13:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=90456"},"modified":"2023-03-02T07:49:41","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T13:49:41","slug":"90456","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=90456","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ll take “Because They’re Stupid<\/em>” for $500, Alex<\/p>\n

Why Gun-Control Activists Can\u2019t Have Intelligent Discussions<\/a><\/p>\n

David Hogg, co-founder of the March for Our Lives gun-control group, recently tweeted what he thinks the Second Amendment means.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter reading about the history of the second amend and talking with a lot of hist & law professors- I believe the second amendment has been intentionally misinterpreted. It was never meant as an individual right it was created to protect state militias like the national guard,\u201d read Hogg\u2019s\u00a0tweet<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That legal theory he is parroting has been debunked by historians, by many legal scholars and by the U.S. Supreme Court.<\/p>\n

The U.S. Supreme Court\u2019s majority opinion in\u00a0District of Columbia v. Heller<\/em>\u00a0(2008) clearly said, \u201cThe Second Amendment protects an\u00a0individual right to possess a firearm\u00a0unconnected with service in a militia, and to use that arm for traditionally lawful purposes, such as\u00a0self-defense within the home.\u201d<\/p>\n

What Hogg tweeted next further demonstrated his ignorance.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt says well regulated militia for a reason. The \u2018shall not be infringed\u2019 part means the federal government is not allowed to forcibly disarm state militias. I\u2019m not alone in this interpretation. Over 100 years of jurisprudence back me up on this,\u201d read Hogg\u2019s follow-up\u00a0tweet<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cHogg mentions \u2018jurisprudence,\u2019 but it seems he does not really understand the term. When contemplating the philosophy of law in the United States as it relates to the Second Amendment, the longest held view of what it protects is an individual right; a view that goes back more than 230 years. There are\u00a0countless quotes<\/a>\u00a0from our Founders\u2014many of whom were deeply involved in the process of writing, debating, and ratifying the Second Amendment\u2014referring to the right of individuals to possess firearms. Even those quotes that mention a \u2018militia\u2019 do so in the context of it being comprised of individual citizens who are expected to supply their own arms,\u201d\u00a0reported<\/a>\u00a0the NRA Institute for Legislative Action (ILA).<\/p>\n

NRA-ILA also cited several other cases in their analysis, before summing up Hogg by saying, \u201cUltimately, David Hogg is simply another anti-gun activist, and like most others, he is prone to making false claims about a subject for which he has little understanding.\u201d<\/p>\n

This militia argument has been so thoroughly debunked that it is disappointing, brain-numbing and counterproductive to have to again refute it, but such is the anti-intellectualism of today\u2019s gun-control movement; unfortunately, this includes, in this case, David Hogg, a student who\u00a0Time<\/em>\u00a0says<\/a>\u00a0is now \u201cstudying the history of conservative political movements\u201d at Harvard. Given these tweets, he isn\u2019t getting much of an education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ll take “Because They’re Stupid” for $500, Alex Why Gun-Control Activists Can\u2019t Have Intelligent Discussions David Hogg, co-founder of the March for Our Lives gun-control group, recently tweeted what he thinks the Second Amendment means. \u201cAfter reading about the history of the second amend and talking with a lot of hist & law professors- I … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,24,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crap-for-brains","category-rights","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90457,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90456\/revisions\/90457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}