From arguments today in Connick v. Thompson:
JUSTICE SCALIA: These are people who haven’t gone to law school, right?MR. DUNCAN: That’s correct.JUSTICE SCALIA: And do not know that you cannot apply deadly force in most circumstances?MR. DUNCAN: They’ve got no background equipment to know what the constitutional standard is. And so that satisfies, in a general situation -JUSTICESCALIA: If you were giving guns to lawyers, it might have been different.(Laughter.)MR. DUNCAN: It could be, Your Honor. Here, you’re giving -JUSTICESCALIA: Depending on the law school they went to or what?{Laughter.)MR. DUNCAN: It could be.
As long as no duck-hunting is involved , I think we’re ok: