{"id":1375,"date":"2007-03-16T06:21:14","date_gmt":"2007-03-16T06:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2007-03-16T06:22:33","modified_gmt":"2007-03-16T06:22:33","slug":"yup_those_lameo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=1375","title":{"rendered":"Yup, Those Lame-o Founders"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kevin Drum has gently chided me for not reading and respecting Matt Yglesias more, since he’s a very smart guy. Since I respect Kevin, and respect is transitive, I started reading Matt again. (we have a history<\/a>…)<\/p>\n

My first reaction<\/a> was to his post on “patriotism.” Not positive.But we’ll keep going, I say…and then I get to his casual post<\/a> on the 2nd Amendment. Now there are all kinds of people who disagree with me about guns. I get it, and think there are good and smart arguments to have about gun policy. Matt & I would probably disagree about many (but not all) issues in gun policy.<\/p>\n

But…that’s not my problem.<\/p>\n

Matt’s post says:<\/p>\n

Julian Sanchez says the “collective right” interpretation of the second amendment doesn’t make sense. And, indeed, it doesn’t really. But then again, neither does the “individual right” reading which would leave the right of individuals to buy anti-tank missiles and nuclear bombs “shall not be infringed.” The clearest thing about the text, after all, is that it says nothing whatsoever about “handguns” — the word is “arms” so whatever our right to arms is, that’s a right to arms not to puny guns.<\/p>\n

\nLike much of the constitution, the second amendment turns out, upon examination, to be an ambiguously worded political compromise written hundreds and hundreds of years ago. Obviously, if you were going to start over from scratch nobody would write it that way.<\/b>
\n[emphasis added]<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, because y’know, we’re so effing much smarter<\/b> than people like Jefferson, Madison, and Franklin.<\/p>\n

How do people like this put t-shirts on? I mean with their big heads and all?<\/p>\n

So, Kevin, I’m afraid I’m going to have to take a pass on Mr. Yglesias for another year or so. He’s either far too smart or far too immature to hold my interest.<\/p>\n

The comments thread there is interesting, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Matt Yglesias isn’t happy with the Constitution. Armed Liberal isn’t happy with Matt Yglesias.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}