my friend M from law school had this insight to the heller opinion:

woo, now I can get a gun and shoot birds and puppies!

there’s just something about shooting puppies in our nation’s capitol that feels so patriotic.

yes, folks. that’s our highbrow legal analysis at work. full decision here.

kgf, an occasionally grouchy grammarian (you’ll never catch me saying “i wish i was…” lemme tell you) had this to say about scalia’s dismissal of the “A well regulated Militia…” clause:

the moral of the story is that subordinate clauses are unimportant and should be eliminated from the syntax thereby freeing the next generation from having to learn any grammar beyond text messaging.

LOL.