This is what U.S. District Judge Benson Everett Legg was getting at in his March 6 ruling against Maryland’s bald infringement of the Second Amendment. That ruling contains the following sentences:
Those who drafted and ratified the Second Amendment surely knew that the right they were enshrining carried a risk of misuse, and states have considerable latitude to channel the exercise of the right in ways that will minimize that risk. States may not, however, seek to reduce the danger by means of widespread curtailment of the right itself.
