all the work that this body does, and a good judge takes seriously everything you do and reads everything put before him or her. you don't close your mind to any argument. you put on the robe, you open your mind. but i think that case illustrates some issues along the lines of what you asked me to discuss. the statute there says, and simplifying, that it's a crime to knowingly be a felon in possession of a gun. and our precedent on the basis of an interpretation about legislative history and the legislative history was very long in that case, extremely long, the statute goes back i think to the 1940s and has been revised many, many times, so one can read a lot of history in that statute. and it can be argued both ways. there's good history, both sides