@farmerman,
DAVID wrote: Thay r obiter dicta, and not a source of judicial authority on those points.
farmerman wrote: The fact that both ADvocate and I stated was that these points WERE stated by Scalia. Your little friend Orlloy seems to be denying everything. I agree that these statements are asides to the decision and are NOT binding.
They re, as intended, to be compelling however.
Thay are not compelling
because thay were not decided
because thay were not argued and hence
were not subjected to judicial analysis.
Indeed, if I remember accurately,
there is some contradiction in the
dicta having said
that doubt shud not be cast on statutes against machineguns,
in addition to more
dicta admitting that the legitimacy
of civilian possession of (fully automatic) M-16s remains to be decided in the future.
Bill Bennett has never been among any heros of mine!!!
I do
not recognize him as any conservative.
He is a
liberal, authoritarian theocrat.
David