so when i can agree with bob levy on anything having to do with guns, maybe it's a new day. we estimate that there have been so far about 300 second amendment challenges filed since heller. and so far helr and mcdonald have proved to be much more pop guns than assault weapons as weapons against gun laws. a wide variety of laws have been upheld. bans on possession of guns by felons, bans on possession by domestic violence misdemeanors, by persons under restraining orders, bans on machine guns, bans on semiautomatic assault weapons, restrictions onguns on college campuses, the list goes on and on. and in fact, probably the most far-reaching decision is the decision by a federal judge in the district of columbia to uphold the laws in this community that were enacted after heller, laws that all law-abiding citizens to have guns in the home but are still the most restrictive laws in the country upheld in their entirety by a federal judge. so generally speaking, courts have taken those assurances and justice scalia's opinion about the gality of gun laws very, very seriously. and t

so when i can agree with bob levy on anything having to do with guns, maybe it's a new day. [laughter] >> we estimate there have been so far about 300 second amendment challenges filed since heller. and so far, heller and mcdonald have proved to be much more pop guns than assault weapons as weapons against gun laws. a wide variety of laws has been upheld. bans on possession of guns by felons, bans on possession, by persons under restraining orders, bans on machine guns, bans on semiautomatic assault, restrictions on carry, restrictions on college campuses, the lists goes on and on. in fact, probably the most far reaching decision is the decision by a federal judge in the district of columbia to uphold the laws in this community that were enacted after heller. laws that allow law-abiding citizens to have guns in the home, but are still the most restrictive laws in the country upheld in their entirety by a federal judge. generally speaking, courts have taken their insurances about the presumptive legality about the gun laws very, very seriously. and the vast majority of courts

so when i can agree with bob levy on anything having to do with guns, maybe it's a new day. we estimate that there have been so far about 300 second amendment challenges filed since heller. and so far heller and mcdonald have proved to be much more pop guns than assault weapons as weapons against gun laws. a wide variety of laws have been upheld. bans on possession of guns by felons, bans on possession by domestic violence misdemeanors, by persons under restraining orders, bans on machine guns, bans on semiautomatic assault weapons, restrictions on guns on college campuses, the list goes on and on. and in fact, probably the most far-reaching decision is the decision by a federal judge in the district of columbia to uphold the laws in this community that were enacted after heller, laws that allow law-abiding citizens to have guns in the home but are still the most restrictive laws in the country upheld in their entirety by a federal judge. so generally speaking, courts have taken those assurances and justice scalia's opinion about the legality of gun laws very, very seriously

now let me pay tribute to cato's own bob levy, chairman e the kato institute, who was instrumental inupremecot. th just last year. the court found that the right was good against state and local restrictions as well. but in both cases, the court left open just what kinds of limits on the right to keep in bear arms might be permitted and that's the subject of litigation that's goi on across the countrtoday. and the main question that's before us today as well. but it does bring us back to anev because the righted issue like all issues not absolute whatever that may mean but subject to reasonable legislation designed to protect members of the public from exceptional risk, on one hand, and the right of individual the right to bear hands including self-defense on the other hand. that's a mixed question, one might say, of law and fact. so to discuss that question we brought together an exceptional panel of experts who i'll introduce just before each of them speaks. as the federalist society in the cato institute usually do, we have both sides represented today. at least insofar as one can

which i'm pleased to say the cato institute's bob levy was on the part of the helping underwrite and the court decided a right to keep and bear arms is a right not by virtue of being a member of the militia. right now we're litigating how extensive that right is. two years later in the mcdonald case out of chicago, that statute in chicago was found unconstitutional. so even the states cannot inthibt right to keep and bear arms. that in a nutshell is what the second amendment is all about. and of course, as you know, caller, and probably from your question, the left has sort of treated the second amendment as an embarrassment. that's unimportant to. because it's not an embarrassment. it's there, and it's there for a reason. host: jesse jackson made that point on the house floor. >> i also want to be clear. i recognize this is a request. this is a request, that in reading those dedacted -- this is very emotional for me. this is very emotional for many members given the struggle, and i am not trying to take a shot at the process. mr. goodlatte knows me and he knows the spirit which i am

corps years program or maybe bob hope toured entertaining american troops but soon the cheers turned to jeers and a new kind of entertainment emerged. howard levy himself a celebrity within the g.i. movement he met with donald sutherland and me and he said what if we put together. an antiwar show that's you know the opposite side of the coin from the from the bob hope show. they took one look at my. f. the army we always said free the army or fun travel and adventure but it really meant the army. here was a way that i could combine my profession my acting with my desire to end the war it just seemed like a perfect fit. this show that we bring to these bases is not trying to tell the people on the bases anything that they don't know we are coming in response to what is probably the most powerful movement going on in this country the movement of the man inside the military and women who are beginning to understand how they're being used and what the nature of american foreign policy is and we come there because they have asked us to we come there because for the last year we have read in the newspapers from vietnam from from west germany from oki

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