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Why the Next Supreme Court Is Poised to Roll Back Gun Rights - The Daily Beast
Why the Next Supreme Court Is Poised to Roll Back Gun Rights
Nuts like the NRA have advanced a radical interpretation of the Second Amendment for the past few decades, but politics and legal thinking signal a return to traditional jurisprudence. Remember that the NRA’s understanding of the Second Amendment is an extremely recent phenomenon. For more than 200 years, the legal and scholarly consensus was that, in the absence of a standing army, the Second Amendment was designed to enable states and localities to maintain a “well-regulated militia” by placing muskets and other weapons in the hands of local citizens………..
Then came three decades of conservative political activism, focused on law schools, the National Rifle Association, and conservative think tanks. This effort culminated (but by no means concluded) with the 2008 case of D.C. v. Heller, which the Supreme Court found, for the first time, an individual right to gun ownership in the Second Amendment………..
ALSO SEE:
How the NRA Rewrote the Second Amendment - POLITICO Magazine
Things go up…….things go down……
And a new court, without a full number of justices, has signaled a changing view of the Second Amendment……..
Not to take away the right to own a gun……….
But moreso allow limits state and federal government have to regulate the use and safety measures of regulation………
One only look to the three gun case decisions issued this term…..and the denial to hear some others which affirmed the right to regulate……
Seems the Court has hear the cry from 70-90% of folks for a need to pass some constitutional ways to regulate the safe use of guns and who has a right to own one……
Why the Next Supreme Court Is Poised to Roll Back Gun Rights
Nuts like the NRA have advanced a radical interpretation of the Second Amendment for the past few decades, but politics and legal thinking signal a return to traditional jurisprudence. Remember that the NRA’s understanding of the Second Amendment is an extremely recent phenomenon. For more than 200 years, the legal and scholarly consensus was that, in the absence of a standing army, the Second Amendment was designed to enable states and localities to maintain a “well-regulated militia” by placing muskets and other weapons in the hands of local citizens………..
Then came three decades of conservative political activism, focused on law schools, the National Rifle Association, and conservative think tanks. This effort culminated (but by no means concluded) with the 2008 case of D.C. v. Heller, which the Supreme Court found, for the first time, an individual right to gun ownership in the Second Amendment………..
ALSO SEE:
How the NRA Rewrote the Second Amendment - POLITICO Magazine
Things go up…….things go down……
And a new court, without a full number of justices, has signaled a changing view of the Second Amendment……..
Not to take away the right to own a gun……….
But moreso allow limits state and federal government have to regulate the use and safety measures of regulation………
One only look to the three gun case decisions issued this term…..and the denial to hear some others which affirmed the right to regulate……
Seems the Court has hear the cry from 70-90% of folks for a need to pass some constitutional ways to regulate the safe use of guns and who has a right to own one……