Gun Crazy

My old friend Cass Sunstein, in a piece (someone) called "Gun Debate Must Avoid Crazy 2nd Amendment Claims," quotes former head of the Constitutional Bicentennial Commission Warren Burger:

[The Second Amendment] has been the subject of one of the greatest piece of fraud--I repeat the word 'fraud--on the American public by special interest groups that I have ever seen in my lifetime.

Poor Cass, pining for a Constitution in Exile.

I have no opinion on who's right about the Second Amendment (and after reading this piece, I'm not sure Cass does), but one sees this fairly distressing approach all too often from those who wish to ensure we have a "modern" society--when the Constitution gets in the way, whether it's the Commerce Clause or the First Amendment, it has to be gotten around, or even interpreted out of existence.