“Weird, in one post you defend the logic of Roland & the 2nd/14th Amendments; -- and in the next you claim the courts 'drive the law'.
Can you explain?”
I believe the Courts have become our unelected masters. They are the Imperial Judiciary. They simply make up or ignore law as they desire and we, the people simply accept it or hope to outlast it. The drive by some federal courts to invent a “collective” right is a case in point. There is NO link between this theory and anything the founders wrote. The first use of a similar concept arose in Aymette v State in Tenn in 1840. The opinion relied on the Tenn State Constitution to restrict concealed carry. This Morphed over 90 years into a “collective right” first used in Federal Courts in the 1930’s. This court created “right” is now used by advocates of gun control to define the intent of the founders to a public too stupid to know any better.
I guess I am saying that there is a growing difference between what the Constitution and the Courts originally said about our rights and what today’s courts say. I note both what the Courts have said and what they are saying today. I hold modern courts in considerable contempt BUT I recognize their power and the actual state of the law.