EUGENE VOLOKH responds to Jack Rakove’s New York Times oped on the Second Amendment:

Prof. Rakove’s view doesn’t even specify what the right would mean. . . . It seems that Prof. Rakove’s view must be that the right means nothing, and never meant anything — certainly his op-ed doesn’t say anything about what the right means or once meant. That’s a funny way to read the Bill of Rights. Reading the Bill of Rights, as, well, securing to the people — again, like you and me — certain rights strikes me as a much more sensible approach.

Yes, it’s always startling to me how quick some people are to dismiss one-tenth of the Bill of Rights.