"The enshrinement of constitutional rights necessarily takes certain policy choices off the table.. Undoubtedly some think that the Second Amendment is outmoded in a society where our standing army is the pride of our Nation, where well-trained police forces provide personal security, and where gun violence is a serious problem. That is perhaps debatable, but what is not debatable is that it is not the role of this Court to pronounce the Second Amendment extinct."
-- Justice Scalia
Source: District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570 (2008)
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