Justice Scalia had no difficulty in doing is historical homework and determining the true meaning of the words of the Second Amendment. I was going to say he won the day for us who believe in the right to keep and bear arms but it might be more accurate to say that he won the split-second because the left is simply reverted to its redefinition of language and history to obtain the result it wants in state after state. That is an instance of lack of political will to enforce a Supreme Court decision. That can conceivably happen immediately after the passage of an amendment but it is highly unlikely that it would occur immediately in the wake of passage.
The 14th amendment, as another example, was never designed to generate birthright citizenship, that appears to have emerged fully grown out of the deep state and a footnote from Justice Brennan.
When our framers wrote the Constitution, and when the 14th amendment was written, there was a basic understanding among these men who were students of the common law and the Anglo-Saxon inheritance about the meaning of the words they were using, such as "treason or high crimes and misdemeanors or, emoluments." As these terms retreated into history, the left found an opening.
So the left has demonstrated an unparalleled ability to win by playing these games. Why, you quite properly ask, should we bother amending the Constitution when that might involve risk when the left will simply play it's old game and undo all the good? We who advocate on behalf of the Article V movement understand these risks and note that the nature of the amendment, whether process or substantive, together with careful wording can immunize, at least during our lifetime and the lifetime of our children and grandchildren, from the contrivances of the left.
For example, there has been no slavery on a public level at least since the 13th amendment. There has been no president serving more than two terms since that amendment. There has been no Senator elected by state legislatures alone since the 17th amendment. The left was simply unable to craft a workaround of these amendments and others. Against the relentless grinding of the left that against the meaning of the Constitution and its formal amendments, we have the undeniable reality that the left is merrily amending the Constitution virtually every day through the courts, throughout law enforcement, through the deep state, through federal legislation, and by any other means at hand to evade what the democratic process had wrought.
fruser1: the "illusory fears" concerning guns to which I made reference had to do with fears that there would be a runaway convention of the states, a possibility so remote as to be discounted as perfectly silly. There is no silliness about the actual and real threats to the possession of guns which occur, as you point out, every day on the state level and will again occur on the federal level. Your risk is not from a convention of the states, your risk is from doing nothing, opposing Article V, and failing to turn Article V to your service.
