Last week, Solicitor General Theodore Olson told the Supreme Court that the Second Amendment "protects the rights of individuals, including persons who are not members of any militia or engaged in active military service." This common-sense perspective (identical to centrist views on other constitutional freedoms) has been held by William Blackstone, John Marshall, Joseph Story, John F. Kennedy, Hubert Humphrey and even - prepare to exclaim, "Holy moly!" - Harvard Law`s ultra-liberal professor Lawrence Tribe.
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