i m seeing green shoots from rules on the lower court in terms of not being deferential even as scalia to government, administrative law, regulatory matters. cases he sate insofar, month 1/2 last term he voted together with thomas on every single one and he has been active in terms of questioning, in terms of writing concurrences and dissents. so he is certainly adding a strong voice, we thought maybe losing scalia more time for advocates to talk but we haven t seen that. from where i sit i m very much looking forward to the constitutional seriousness that gorsuch is bringing. sounds to me what we ll see, it will go back to the kind of court dynamics at least in votes and ideology we saw before justice squeal law did. briefly. it is left and right against the middle, we ve seen that this week in couple arguments where gorsuch joining liberals
legal? why not band them all? you can t the risk of anyone adapting them into a killing machine. you can understand why people think that because it seems so incomprehensible. as you say, people have a right to be safe when they re out in public places but if you re going to go down that road which australia went down, you re talking about gun confiscation from tens of millions of people, that is unlikely to work out. the drug war hasn t been too successful in it country. this would be something much, much worse than that besides getting rid of the second amendment, we would have to get rid of the fourth and fifth amendment too. your argument it would be illegal under the second amendment to ban these kinds of guns in the first place. even if you did succeed making, changing the second amendment or passing a law that the court said was legal, you would have a major, major problem just politically on your hands
i earlier spoke to law professor, david coppell, research director of independence institute and author of the book, the truth about gun control. david coppell, good to have you with us. new calls for gun control in the wake of las vegas. i want to take these arguments, based on what we know one by one. start with automatic weapons, if stephen paddock had automatic weapons that was illegal under the law, correct? yes. 1986 federal law said no new automatics can be sold to anyone in the public. ever since 1934 even owning a old one has been process that requires about nine months to get federal permission to do so. okay. let slet s go to semiautomatic weapons, fire single pull of the trigger with unshot. he had a lot of those apparently including ar-15s which are a popular form of semiautomatic
it s ok that everybody ignores me when i drive. it s fine, cause i get a safe driving bonus check every six months i m accident-free. and i don t share it with mom. right, mom? right. safe driving bonus checks, only from allstate. switching to allstate is worth it. paul: time now for our hits and misses of the week. bill, first to you. paul, a miss to william and mary college. we are all familiar with the suppression of conservative voices on campus but, recently, a woman from the aclu was shut down when she tried to speak by a group affiliated with black lives matter which planned and live streamed the event. next followed by a mealy-mouthed statement from the president which said nothing about bringing people to justice. the left is eating itself. the president of william and mary? right. the left is eating its own. the first amendment is suffering and our university leaders are too craven to do
i m seeing green shoots from rules on the lower court in terms of not being deferential even as scalia to government, administrative law, regulatory matters. cases he sate insofar, month 1/2 last term he voted together with thomas on every single one and he has been active in terms of questioning, in terms of writing concurrences and dissents. so he is certainly adding a strong voice, we thought maybe losing scalia more time for advocates to talk but we haven t seen that. from where i sit i m very much looking forward to the constitutional seriousness that gorsuch is bringing. sounds to me what we ll see, it will go back to the kind of court dynamics at least in votes and ideology we saw before justice squeal law did. briefly. it is left and right against the middle, we ve seen that this week in couple arguments where gorsuch joining liberals protecting constitutional defendants for criminal