UT professor Calvin Johnson wrote on an email listserv for constitutional law professors, “Another typical exercise of 2d [sic] Amendment rights today.” The statement was followed by a link to a New York Times story on Monday’s school shooting in Ohio, which at this time has left a reported four wounded and one dead.

Asked for comment, Johnson further expounded on Second Amendment interpretations:

“The original meaning of the second amendment was to form a better militia,” Johnson wrote in an email to the Washington Free Beacon. “Under original meaning, guns fit into miliitias, [sic] and militias are subject to Presidential orders. Disobey the order and you can be shot. That is the real second amendment. The fake one allows high school adolescents to have easy access to the opportunity to work out their fantasies. That is bad originalism.”

Johnson has also defended the city of Chicago’s handgun ban, arguing against the Second Amendment as an individual right. The ban was found unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.

Johnson has also argued that it was “quite reasonable” to disregard James Madison’s idea of the right to bear arms as “historical trivia.”

According to his faculty web page, Johnson has taught law at UT since 1981, focusing on tax policy. In 2011, he was also a fellow at the Tax Policy Center, a joint program of Urban Institute and Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C.

A message at the bottom of emails sent to the listserv reads: “Please note that messages sent to this large list cannot be viewed as private.  Anyone can subscribe to the list and read messages that are posted; people can read the Web archives; and list members can (rightly or wrongly) forward the messages to others.”

If relations between Hollywood and Washington, D.C. have soured because of the failure of SOPA, it didn’t show Tuesday evening. About 135 entertainment executives and artists attended the soiree, held at the Beverly Hills home of Ted Sarandos, Chief Content Officer at Netflix.

Among the guests were Quincy Jones, Harvey Weinstein and Berry Gordy, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

From the Huffington Post Los Angeles:

The donation-raising power of a single night with Hollywood power players is the reason why presidential campaigners from both parties regularly visit our “golden” political donor state. President Obama had made seven trips to California by the end of September 2011, followed by another in October and November. And, the President and First Lady are scheduled to return to Southern California and the Bay Area February 15 and 16.

In 2011, California gave more in political donations than any other state, excluding Texas, New York and Washington, D.C., according yesterday’s filings cited by California Watch. And the money is coming in large–$12 million from California in 2011–since the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2009 Citizen’s United ruling that wealthy individuals and organizations can make unlimited political donations.

Who is getting the money? As California Watch points out, the two biggest California donors were DreamWorks executive Jeffrey Katzenberg, who gave $2 million to Obama, and former Univision CEO Jerry Perenchio, who gave $2 million to American Crossroads, a conservative fundraising group led by Karl Rove. A list of the top contributors to all presidential candidates, including Steven Spielberg and J.J. Abrams, is available by The New York Times here.