Reposted by Jonathan Lowy
"The fate of life-or-death gun laws should turn more on present-day risk than on contested accounts of what a small group of men drank, tolerated, or regulated 250 years ago."
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The Absurdity of Bruen: Why Are John Adams’s Drinking Habits Determining Today’s Gun Laws?
Thought exercise: You are designing a legal test to decide whether the government may prohibit a citizen from possessing guns because he uses an intoxicant that is now legal in much of the country.