The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.

I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

Historically, the new government had no money to pay for an army, so they relied on the state militias. And the states required men to have certain weapons and they specified in the law what weapons these people had to keep in their home so that when they were called to do service as militiamen, they would have them. That was the entire purpose of the Second Amendment.

Members of the legislature, people who have run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed

Every constitution written since the end of World War II includes a provision that men and women are citizens of equal stature. Ours does not.

In my view, if the Court had properly interpreted the Second Amendment, the Court would have said that Amendment was very important when the nation was new, it gave a qualified right to keep and bear arms but it was for one purpose only, and that was the purpose of having militiamen who were able to fight to preserve the nation.

I became a lawyer for selfish reasons. I thought I could do a lawyer’s job better than any other.