Justice Antonin Scalia and the presidential race
Photo credit: AP | Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is interviewed by The Associated Press at the Supreme Court in Washington. (July 26, 2012)
Imagine if one of the U.S. Supreme Court's Democratic-appointed, liberal-bloc judges said flatly in an interview -- just after the Colorado theater massacre -- that the Second Amendment leaves room for U.S. lawmakers to regulate guns.
Gun-control groups might applaud the jurist's independent willingness to live in the real world and stand up, if only to say assault-weapons curbs "will have...