Of course not. Newt Gingrich and the Republican leadership are working hand in hand with the NRA and the gun lobby to use this committee to stage yet another pep rally for guns and gun nuts. But the intellectual content of this hearing is so far off the edge that we ought to declare this an official meeting of the flat earth society. Because the pro-gun arguments we will hear today are as flaky as the arguments of the tiny few who still insist that the earth is flat. Like flat earth fanatics, Second Amendment fanatics just don't get it.
Facts are facts.
The earth is not flat. And Constitutional law is Constitutional law. The Second Amendment is not absolute. It does not guarantee the mythical individual right to bear arms we will hear argued for today. The gun lobby and its friends in Congress can line up professors of history and law from here to NRA headquarters and back.