Poor Hunter Biden. Being reasonable and taking a plea deal for OWNING A GUN!
HE SHOULD TAKE IT TO SCOTUS! 2nd AMENDMENT!
The right wing crazies wouldn't know whether to hate him or love him.
Owning a gun knowing that he wasn't allowed to as he was under the influence of a controlled substance...
Right wingers a probably pretty cool with penalizing drug users.
@volkris Still, I would love to see Alito and Thomas tie themselves in knots interpreting "shall not be infringed" in relation to something (substance abuse) not in the Constitution.
I really don't think you understand their arguments if you think this issue would tie them into knots.
Here, I'll link to Bruen if you'd like you read more.
In particular, the operational part isn't the one you quoted, but rather the right itself. What is the right, exactly, that shall not be infringed? We get the don't infringe this, but... don't infringe what?
Thomas writes that a government wanting to regulate must show that what it's infringing upon isn't part of this right, by showing it not to have been part of the right alluded to.
And so, just as Thomas recognizes that the right did not extend to all locations, he'd probably recognize that the right didn't extend to people under the influence of drugs.
