Scalia's world

This is what Justice Scalia said on June 12, 2008 in his opinion dissenting from the Supreme Court's decision in Boumediene v. Bush that the prisoners in Guantanamo can ask a court to review whether their detention is lawful:

"[today's opinion] will almost certainly cause more Americans to be killed."

Here's what Scalia said two weeks later in his June 26, 2008 opinion in District of Columbia v. Heller striking down a government regulation making it a crime to carry an unregistered firearm:

"the Second Amendment extends, prima facie, to all instruments that constitute bearable arms, even those that were not in existence at the time of the founding."

That would include the 12-gauge shotguns and Tec 9 semi-automatic machine guns used in Columbine, and the Glock 19 used at Virginia Tech. I'm sure the irony of writing these two opinions within two weeks of each other is lost on Justice Scalia.