Garrett Murphy
@garrettmurphy-phx.bsky.social
Father of two. Javascript developer, have worked in a dozen industries so I have a lot of random experience. Arizonan since 1978.
Author, storyteller, and well-read.
Formerly known as Uncle Garrett, the Uncle of Quora, but that place got ugly.
Author, storyteller, and well-read.
Formerly known as Uncle Garrett, the Uncle of Quora, but that place got ugly.
Ooooooo...that's a hard one to explain.
December 19, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Ooooooo...that's a hard one to explain.
"In sum, doing away with the Court’s use of originalism to interpret the Second Amendment may be necessary to keep Heller viable."
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December 17, 2025 at 7:08 PM
"In sum, doing away with the Court’s use of originalism to interpret the Second Amendment may be necessary to keep Heller viable."
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"This reconsideration would raise many questions, such as whether the people of the founding era had a monopoly on wisdom concerning the Second Amendment’s meaning and whether that 'wisdom' from the 1700s is still relevant in today’s America.
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December 17, 2025 at 7:08 PM
"This reconsideration would raise many questions, such as whether the people of the founding era had a monopoly on wisdom concerning the Second Amendment’s meaning and whether that 'wisdom' from the 1700s is still relevant in today’s America.
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"In addition, the Court should seriously reconsider its use of originalism in interpreting the Second Amendment generally.
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December 17, 2025 at 7:08 PM
"In addition, the Court should seriously reconsider its use of originalism in interpreting the Second Amendment generally.
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"If the goal is to maintain Heller as legal precedent in future cases, the most intellectually honest thing for the United States Supreme Court to do is to conclude that Heller was correct in its ultimate judgment but incorrect in its reasoning.
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December 17, 2025 at 7:08 PM
"If the goal is to maintain Heller as legal precedent in future cases, the most intellectually honest thing for the United States Supreme Court to do is to conclude that Heller was correct in its ultimate judgment but incorrect in its reasoning.
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"The results of this corpus analysis...should raise a major red flag for political conservatives, “conservative” judges and justices, and legal scholars who adopt Justice Scalia’s originalist theory of constitutional interpretation concerning the Second Amendment.
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December 17, 2025 at 7:08 PM
"The results of this corpus analysis...should raise a major red flag for political conservatives, “conservative” judges and justices, and legal scholars who adopt Justice Scalia’s originalist theory of constitutional interpretation concerning the Second Amendment.
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"In other words, Justice Scalia and the majority incorrectly interpreted the Second Amendment based on the original public meaning theory of originalism.
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December 17, 2025 at 7:08 PM
"In other words, Justice Scalia and the majority incorrectly interpreted the Second Amendment based on the original public meaning theory of originalism.
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"As demonstrated above, the results of [our] search with expanded sample sizes overwhelmingly support Justice Stevens’s position in the Heller opinion that the original public meaning of the Second Amendment did not support the private right to use a firearm.
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December 17, 2025 at 7:08 PM
"As demonstrated above, the results of [our] search with expanded sample sizes overwhelmingly support Justice Stevens’s position in the Heller opinion that the original public meaning of the Second Amendment did not support the private right to use a firearm.
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In 2020, a pro-2nd Amendment group attempted to use a new set of textual analysis tools to disprove the work of the previous linguists. They found:
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December 17, 2025 at 7:08 PM
In 2020, a pro-2nd Amendment group attempted to use a new set of textual analysis tools to disprove the work of the previous linguists. They found:
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"The term 'bear arms' is an idiomatic expression that means 'to serve as a soldier, do military service, fight.'"
In the end, “only a handful” used the phrase “bear arms” outside of the relation to military use.
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In the end, “only a handful” used the phrase “bear arms” outside of the relation to military use.
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December 17, 2025 at 7:08 PM
"The term 'bear arms' is an idiomatic expression that means 'to serve as a soldier, do military service, fight.'"
In the end, “only a handful” used the phrase “bear arms” outside of the relation to military use.
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In the end, “only a handful” used the phrase “bear arms” outside of the relation to military use.
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"It is only where additional language is tacked on, either to bend the idiom by specifying a particular type of fighting or to break the idiom by adding incompatible language, that the meaning of 'bear arms' deviates.
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December 17, 2025 at 7:08 PM
"It is only where additional language is tacked on, either to bend the idiom by specifying a particular type of fighting or to break the idiom by adding incompatible language, that the meaning of 'bear arms' deviates.
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