Chief Justice Burger on Gun Control

[arctichomesteader]

I don't think anyone associated with Nixon had an ounce of respect for the Constitution.

Burger is hardly popular amongst conservatives either. He voted for abortion in Roe v. Wade as well.

[wutitiz]

Burger was largely a product of the era when the Second Amendment was ignored by legal scholars. But in the last decades of the 20th century there was a lot more scholarship done in this area, and some people like Sanford Levinson and Laurence Tribe became converts to the individual right model.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/06/us...pagewanted=all

Originally Posted by NYT

Laurence H. Tribe, a law professor at Harvard, said he had come to believe that the Second Amendment protected an individual right.
“My conclusion came as something of a surprise to me, and an unwelcome surprise,” Professor Tribe said. “I have always supported as a matter of policy very comprehensive gun control.”
The first two editions of Professor Tribe’s influential treatise on constitutional law, in 1978 and 1988, endorsed the collective rights view. The latest, published in 2000, sets out his current interpretation.

[tom77falcons]

I believe in reasonable gun regulation, but thank god Burger didn't have his way. Every person has the right to defend their life and property. I certainly believe in an individual right to own a gun to protect your self and family. I also happen to believe the govt has the right to regulate dangerous and unusual weapons.