This episode features a special recording from our Talking San Diego speaker series, spotlighting Congressman Jamie Raskin, a fourth-term Democratic representative from Maryland’s 8th Congressional District.

Talking Feds

Harry Litman

Rebutting the Insurrectionary Theory of the Second Amendment

DEC 12, 202436 MIN
Talking Feds

Rebutting the Insurrectionary Theory of the Second Amendment

DEC 12, 202436 MIN

Description

In a special 1-on-1 taped before a live audience as part of the Talking San Diego series (www.talkingsandiego.net) , Harry sits down with Congressman Jamie Raskin to discuss a theory of Second Amendment rights that has proliferated in recent years, including support by elected officials such as Matt Gaetz. That is an insurrectionary theory according to which the Constitution protects the right of the people to keep and bear arms in order to use them against their own government when they perceive the government has become tyrannical. Raskin completely shreds the theory as a matter of history, text, and constitutional structure. He concludes that “the real Constitution rejects the right wing fantasy that random banks of disgruntled armed citizens can claim the powers of the constitutional militia.”

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