{"id":1172,"date":"2003-05-07T17:28:57","date_gmt":"2003-05-08T07:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/05\/07\/sumo-wrestlers-and-rattlesnakes\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T08:39:11","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:39:11","slug":"sumo-wrestlers-and-rattlesnakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/05\/07\/sumo-wrestlers-and-rattlesnakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Sumo wrestlers and rattlesnakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\n  The sheer ponderousness of the panel&#8217;s opinion &#8212; the mountain of verbiage it must deploy to explain away these fourteen short words of constitutional text &#8212; refutes its thesis far more convincingly than anything I might say. The panel&#8217;s labored effort to smother the Second Amendment by sheer body weight has all the grace of a sumo wrestler trying to kill a rattlesnake by sitting on it &#8212; and is just as likely to succeed.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; Justice Alex Kozinski, in his dissenting opinion to Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals case <a href=\"http:\/\/www1.law.ucla.edu\/~volokh\/blog_data\/silveira.pdf\" title=\"Silveira v. Lockyer\">Silvera v. Lockyer (PDF)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2003_05_01_archive.html#200255452\" title=\"Kozinski -- a Federal judge with style\">Cory Doctorow<\/a>, via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trubble.com\/blog\/archives\/000101.html#000101\" title=\"The Honorable Alex Kozinski is a Riot\">trubble<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sheer ponderousness of the panel&#8217;s opinion &mdash; the mountain of verbiage it must deploy to explain away these fourteen short words of constitutional text &mdash; refutes its thesis far more convincingly than anything I might say. The panel&#8217;s labored effort to smother the Second Amendment by sheer body weight has all the grace of a sumo wrestler trying to kill a rattlesnake by sitting on it &mdash; and is just as likely to succeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2042],"tags":[14,16],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}