“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.” ― The Art of War
Below is a transcript of the short but critical discussion of the Second Amendment with Chuck Todd and Kimberly Atkins Stohr of the Boston Globe.”
Link to full transcript: https://app.podscribe.ai/episode/86280752
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Chuck Todd: I wanna start with what people may not realize is that you have a law degree. You, you’re a recovering lawyer or recovering practicing lawyer, right? Isn’t that? Yes. And I wanna start with a, a question that Chris Murphy and I, a conversation we had off camera and we didn’t fully get to it, and it was sort of on the issue of guns in the most recent ruling in Virginia, where a federal judge said, because of the Supreme Court ruling when it came to handgun restrictions in New York state, that no longer could a federal government, you know, to anybody under the age of 21 be limited in their ability to, to get access to a handgun. And it goes to this issue, which is, if you believe there needs to be regulation of guns, do you focus your energy on changing the legal interpretation of the Second Amendment that has clearly gone through a radical change over the last 20 years from the rights perspective?
Chuck Todd: Or do you actually try to change the constitution? And I asked him that and he goes, you know, he goes, he admitted to me that he doesn’t know what the right answer is, but that he’s thought about both.
Kimberly Atkins Stohr: Yeah, I think he’s absolutely right. I mean, the part, the problem with this that’s so different with other issues is because the Supreme Court has ruled the way that it has and it indicates it will continue to expand the constitutional gun, right, as far as possible. You’re seeing efforts like the states when they, even when they do try to thread that needle and pass gun laws with previous Supreme Court cases in mind, you’re seeing these, these laws be struck down again and again, just spurring new, new appeals which go back up to the Supreme Court, which expands the Second Amendment even more. So I’m not sure that lawmakers can legislate their way out of this so long agree.
Kimberly Atkins Stohr: You know, as this most recent opinion in Bruin, which expanded that individual gun right outside the home, I I think measures beyond background checks that are passed to try to stem this violence are just going to be doomed in the courts. Yes. I think aside from amending the Constitution, I don’t know what other solution there is
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