I can understand that, but too often we react without having all the information we need. It’s getting to the point that any mere slight gets a person labled a RINO. By some measures, I wonder if a true conservative even exists anymore with the exception of the name valler who is 100% true to the definition of “conservative” in their own mind.
We don’t need purity tests; however, we do need jurists who decide in the favor of reducing government. We have far too many regulations on gun ownership already and an ever-more ubiquitous government presence in our lives in general. Scalia may have been giving the answer he thought was appropriate for the venue he was at, but any talk of additional regulations on gun ownership, even if it is hypothetical, causes my “Oh-crap-ometer” to rise another degree or two.