Supreme Court Justice Scalia said that torture, though cruel and unusual, "is not punishment" and therefore not unconstitutional. I don't know of any commentary that can make that statement more frightening. Here's one for the Second Amendment. Our founding fathers, after putting as many checks and balances into the government as possible, put one more check into the hands of the people. If the day came when the government had become too oppressive, taken away too many rights, and perhaps cruelly tortured innocents with no pretext of punishment, the people would have guns. Even if the government were to take away our right to vote, we would still have one vote left. Our founding fathers understood that the government gained its legitimacy from the people, and if the government were ever to become incorrigibly corrupt, guns would give the people the power to change it. I do not suggest anyone put a cap in Scalia. But maybe the founders do.