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If you look at the values and the historical record, you will see that the Founding Fathers never intended guns to go unregulated, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer contended Sunday.
Appearing on "Fox News Sunday," Breyer said history stands with the dissenters in the court's decision to overturn a Washington, D.C., handgun ban in the 2008 case "D.C. v. Heller."
Breyer wrote the dissent and was joined by Justices John Paul Stevens, David H. Souter and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. He said historians would side with him in the case because they have concluded that Founding Father James Madison was more worried that the Constitution may not be ratified than he was about granting individuals the right to bear arms.
Madison "was worried about opponents who would think Congress would call up state militias and nationalize them. 'That can't happen,' said Madison," said Breyer, adding that historians characterize Madison's priority as, "I've got to get this document ratified."
Therefore, Madison included the Second Amendment to appease the states, Breyer said.
Breyer: Founding Fathers Would Have Allowed Restrictions on Guns - FoxNews.com
What complete and utter bullshit. Everybody had a gun in those days. They needed it for hunting and they needed them for self defense, particularly with the British at their door step. There weren't local police forces in most places. There were no gun laws at the federal level or even the state level. Gun control wasn't even a term that existed in colonial America.
Not that his use of foreign laws in making his decisions isn't enough evidence already, this is just further proof that Stephen Breyer is unfit for service on the U.S. Supreme Court.