On hacks posing as academics
The Geek says of Saul Cornell’s book on the second amendment:
Despite my reservations concerning Prof. Cornell’s work, given his Joyce Foundation funding, I’d always extended Prof. Cornell a certain grudging benefit of the doubt concerning the presumption of good will and academic integrity, but after reading Holbrook, I can no longer do that.
When it comes to history and the foundation of law, it seems that the Forces of Organized Gun Bigotry simply cannot find a leg to stand on without resorting to flagrant distortion.
Indeed. The one thing that the antis simply cannot get around is that there is absolutely nothing from the time of the founding indicating the collective rights model. Collective rights meaning no rights at all, really. In fact, you likely won’t find anything supporting the collective rights model until about the 1940s, would be my guess. They keep tilting at that windmill though. Guess they just make it up.
