Brennan called the idea that modern judges could discern the framers’ original intention “little more than arrogance cloaked as humility.” As to originalists’ particular readings, historians tended to find them absurd. In a searing critique of the new interpretation of the Second Amendment, the historian Garry Wills pointed out that the Second Amendment had everything to do with the common defense and nothing to do with hunting: “One does not bear arms against a rabbit.”
