Perhaps dissenting justices would be more sympathetic to the right of self-defense if they had a burglar downstairs in their homes. [More]Perhaps.
I'd love to know how to get a burglar into one of their homes to find out.
Still, coming from a California college professor, what a welcome and refreshing viewpoint to come across! Wish I'd had guys like this teaching--by the early Seventies, the faculty was already pretty much thoroughly commie-infiltrated.