[Hoot Gibson]

I believe Justice Stevens was suggesting not that the majority in HELLER was utterly wrong, but that the scope was too broad. I simply do not believe stringent regulation of an AR-15 is an excessive barrier to exercising a 2nd Amendment right. The pendulum swings in American jurisprudence, and perhaps HELLER was a corrective of a lurch too far left, but it has jolted the pendulum too far right, in my view.

You are entitled to your opinion, but Justice Stevens has been on the losing side of Supreme Court decisions far more often than he has been with the majority. Citing a Justice who favors the creation and restriction of rights that are no where to be found among the words of the Constitution does not carry the same weight as being able to cite the Constitution itself, IMO. The Constitution was never intended to be an instrument whose meaning changed at the whim of a political party.