One of the adult questioners was a Circuit Court judge, not a prof.
Stupid but Constitutional was probably my favorite line of the night.
I'm extremely jealous, wish I could have gone, but I have finals now...
Sorry I missed that - would have been in line for tickets had I been on campus. Sounds like he's an interesting guy who really has his head on straight. It might be facing backwards, but at least its straight. It is interesting to hear where his views come from; I have an additional respect for him after reading that in spite of some of the points with which I disagree.
Z, you are correct. This is why I take notes. 
Steve, it was awesome. Are you free anytime before I leave in a couple weeks? We should have an old school CR bar night!
Mike, glad you at least respect the man. Once again proving yourself more rational than your confederates in the DNC. Where exactly do you disagree?
Fundamentally, I think a lot has changed in the last 220 years or so; many of these changes were inconceivable to the founding fathers. We can debate the second amendment (the most poorly worded of them all, I think), but certainly they never predicted that it would apply to AK-47s and M-16s. The medical details of abortion? They thought bleeding was a cure for being sick. Times change, so we need some flexibility in interpretation.
That said, I do greatly respect his opinion that the courts should not really be instruments of radical change; let the lawmakers make laws, checked by the people. Even when Plessy v. Ferguson was overturned by Brown v. Board, it took legistlation to make true change occur. I just think we need to "keep it real" as the current saying goes, when making the decisions. We must be cautious when planting our modern problems into the minds of past thinkers. Change is, in the end, inevitable.
My view on "assault weapons" is simply that the Constitution does not ban them, nor does it necessarily protect them. And I'd like to keep it that way. I think it is a debate that we need to have in both chambers of Congress, not just in the Senate Judiciary committee.
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