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[jason10mm]

Long barrel's don't make a gun accurate

Not true. While the primary benefit of a longer barrel is to increase bullet velocity (which usually does improve accuracy as a faster bullet reaches the target with less drop and less wind deflection) it also allows for a longer sight radius with iron sights which does definitely improve accuracy (if using iron sights). There is also some harmonic frequency stuff with specific lengths, barrel weights, and such, but at that point you are in the realm of extreme bench rest shooters.

I'd say the guard DID stop the attack. His presence seems to have triggered the suicide. It is a repeated pattern with these recent shooters that they commit suicide once encountering resistance (here, newtown, one of the recent mall shootings). This is one of the central principles behind encouraging widespread concealed carry by civilians. ANY armed resistance seems beneficial.

 

[Dude Abides]

Given the influence by Blackstone and Beccaria on the bill of rights and its interpretation I have concluded you have no idea what you're talking about ROFL.

No, he's right about how the 2nd Amendment has been interpreted. Throwing out a couple names you googled isn't very persuasive. If Beccaria, for instance, was as influential as you seem to think he was then the BoR would have prohibited capital punishment.

 

[Yoritomo]

No, he's right about how the 2nd Amendment has been interpreted. Throwing out a couple names you googled isn't very persuasive. If Beccaria, for instance, was as influential as you seem to think he was then the BoR would have prohibited capital punishment.

Which is based mostly on Miller.

The 2000s have been huge for 2nd amendment related law.

Prior to Miller the common view was that it was an individual right.

 

[Dude Abides]

Which is based mostly on Miller.

The 2000s have been huge for 2nd amendment related law.

Prior to Miller the common view was that it was an individual right.

Prior to Miller the question wasn't addressed.

 

[Yoritomo]

Prior to Miller the question wasn't addressed.

Which is why I said the common view and made references to Beccaria and Blackstone. I guess it's specifically Tucker that sold the idea hard in the 19th Century US, but prior to Miller is was widely accepted as an individual right, and the argument of original intent always refers back to Tucker's Blackstone.

 

[Dude Abides]

Which is why I said the common view and made references to Beccaria and Blackstone. I guess it's specifically Tucker that sold the idea hard in the 19th Century US, but prior to Miller is was widely accepted as an individual right, and the argument of original intent always refers back to Tucker's Blackstone.

Hard to see how an argument for the original intent of the 2nd Amendment can be traced to a treatise written after the BoR was ratified.