A liberal's lament: The NRA might be right after all

Professor Jonathan Turley finds himself in the uncomfortable position of admitting that the NRA's interpretation of "the Voldemort amendment" might be right after all. In an OP-Ed piece in USA-TODAY, Turley writes...

Like many academics, I was happy to blissfully ignore the Second
Amendment. It did not fit neatly into my socially liberal agenda. Yet,
two related cases could now force liberals into a crisis of conscience.

He refers, of course, to Heller and its parent case, Parker. Like other liberals before him, Turley noticed that one cannot engage in a fanciful reading of the 2nd Amendment without putting the rest of the Bill or Rights in peril.

Principle is a terrible thing, because it demands not what is convenient but what is right. It is hard to read the Second Amendment and not honestly conclude that the Framers intended gun ownership to be an individual right.

If only more liberals were more principled.

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