Though, as I noted at the time, The correct argument for 2016 GOP was: We’ve already helped Obama put two Constitution-busting justices on the Court, and now we have an patriotic duty to do everything within our legal power to stop him from doing it again.’
Early on I was Fauci-neutral, but now I basically think he's the worst person in the country. A mendacious, political motivated, bureaucrat whose caused immense damage.
“If you don’t have 60 votes yet, it just means you haven’t done enough advocacy, and you need to work a lot harder.” -- Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Jan 2019
"I rise today to urge my colleagues to think about the implications the nuclear option would have on this chamber and this country. I urge you to think not just about winning every debate, but about protecting free and democratic debate." -- Barack Obama, 2005
“[Ending the filibuster] would be the end of the Senate as it was originally devised and created going back to our Founding Fathers.” - Dick Durbin, 2018
the constitution rejects direct democracy -- and yet these people keep pretending that it's some kind of baseline of good governance. it's just amazing. there is no popular vote, never was, and yet they write about it like it's a real thing.
none of this is to even mention, that all of his arguments are incredibly misleading.
Another example of anti-2A activists leaming heavy on this quote -- taking it completely out of context -- while ignoring the rest of the ruling, which upheld the right of individual gun ownership as it was "known to ordinary citizens in the founding generation."
The Scalia quote is taken from the section in which Heller specifically mentions "concealed carry" laws and "unusual weapons" and weapons for the "mentally ill." Semi-autos are not unusual; there are hundreds of millions of them in circulation.
And, of course, banning open carry would have struck any American in the Founding generation as tyrannical.