Ownership of Assault Weapons by U.S. Civilians

U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger was at the top of the American legal pyramid when I was a teenager in the early 1970s.

His perspective that the (mis)interpretation of the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, at the behest of the gun lobby, that provides unlimited freedom to bear arms is “one of the greatest pieces of fraud every perpetrated on the American people” is most certainly the position for which he’s best remembered.

Here’s the problem: Burger made his point 50 years ago, when some semblance of integrity and intelligence still remained in American political life.  Almost all of that is gone now.