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Response to Cornell's claim that gun rights cases were uniquely slave-state

Posted by David Hardy · 6 October 2015 06:05 PM

Over at National Review Online, Charles Cooke takes apart Saul Cornell's article claiming that early State gun rights cases were a product of slave State courts.

The fact is that the early gun laws were the products of the then-frontier southeast, and so were the early gun law challenges. What conclusion can be drawn from either isn't terribly clear.

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Jeff | October 7, 2015 1:43 PM | Reply

Saul Cornell is an interesting fellow. He's got one of those super-deep, uniquely intellectual approaches to guns. He's often incapable of grasping practical realities. And his ideas are like Philosophy 101 logic problems, where if you screw up a basic premise early in the equation then you end up with a perverse and irrational outcome. I disagree with him on so many things. And yet I find him to be brilliant and fascinating. Even if you find him frustratingly wrong on the issue of guns, it's worth taking time to read his stuff. His logical failures have helped me to further develop a solid base for my own convictions.

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