Ken Cuccinelli: “Once you have allowed, sort of kicked open that door, there is no articulable limit to that power.”

I started, particularly here at the 250th anniversary [of Virginia’s constitution being adopted], by reflecting on sections one, two, and three of the Declaration of Rights, which were adopted at the same time as Section 13.

The answer is no. I was never ordered or asked to do that. He respected that answer.

One of the things Mason was concerned about, and it came out of the Stuart era that led into the Glorious Revolution and the right to bear arms being broadly spread out, was the Stuarts’ use of select militias.

And famously, Mason said, we are the militia. They are the whole people, and that was never disputed in that time period and the Commonwealth didn’t dispute that.