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What does Sarah Palin think about Heller's limits on Second Amendment right?

By Douglas A. Berman

According to this CNN item, Sarah Palin addressed a National Rifle Association dinner in Anchorage on Saturday and gave ?a stirring speech on 2nd Amendment rights.?  Though I doubt former Gov. Palin gave lots of attention to the Second Amendment sentencing issues about which I often blog, I cannot help but enjoy speculating that she decided to quit being governor so that she could join me as one of the few (but growing?) active and vocal critics of the unspecified and unjustified (and unjustifiable?) extreme limits on Second Amendment rights that appear in Heller. Some related Second Amendment posts: Heller's impact on felon-in-possession crimes finally starting to generate attention First(?) significant(?) Second Amendment ruling favoring a federal criminal defendant Might Judge Sotomayor think the Second Amendment "deserves to be on equal footing with the First Amendment" for ex-cons? Seventh Circuit resists extending Second Amendment to the states NRA quickly petitions SCOTUS for Second Amendment incorporation  SCOTUS undercuts constitutional gun rights in Hayes without even mentioning Heller or Second Amendment Given Hayes, can jurisdictions criminalize gun possession by any misdemeanant? The lack of originalist justification for excluding felons from the Second Amendment Assailing the unjustified Second Amendment limits in Heller Notable new Alaska appellate decision on denying gun rights to non-violent felons "Why Can?t Martha Stewart Have a Gun?" Is anyone (other than me) discussing the apparent insignificance of Heller? "The New Second Amendment: A Bark Worse Than Its Right" What might 2009 have in store for ...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on August 03, 2009 (boomark / email).