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Quote from Justice Antonin Scalia,


"[T]he enshrinement of constitutional rights
necessarily takes certain policy choices off the
table.... Undoubtedly some think that the
Second Amendment is outmoded in a society
where our standing army is the pride of our
Nation, where well-trained police forces
provide personal security, and where gun
violence is a serious problem. That is perhaps
debatable, but what is not debatable is that it
is not the role of this Court to pronounce the
Second Amendment extinct."


By:

Justice Antonin Scalia (more quotes by Justice Antonin Scalia or books by/about Justice Antonin Scalia)


(1936-2016) American jurist, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

Source:

District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570 (2008)

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