Lew, these videotaped episodes of police criminality should be a lesson for all of us.
Thankfully, the libertarians of the day, the Antifederalists, insisted on a Bill of Rights that included a right to bear arms. If these incidents increase and multiply, that right will come in handy.
A student in my class the other day said, in response to my question, “What’s the purpose of the Second Amendment?”, “To protect the First.”
4:31 pm on September 20, 2007