Because handguns have been banned they can be banned and should be banned.
Perhaps I missed it but has Mr. Paulsen ever done anything but propose conundrums, ask questions and spread old school Fear,Uncertainty,Confusion and Doubt about everything related to the 2nd Amendment?
You have followed his comments much more closely than I.
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When it comes to gun rights, I refuse to permit falsehoods, inaccuracies, or muddle-headed thinking to go unchallenged on FR. rp is quite knowledgeable about case law, but unfortunately that includes, in the case of gun rights, a preponderance of flawed cases, leading to many very untenable positions.
A prime example is the position that we must look only to our individual states for protection of the same right to keep and bear arms that is protected by the Second Amendment. There is absolutely no reason to single out the right to keep and bear arms, among all the inalienable rights of man, as having some character that justifies lack of protection by the federal government. This would seem to be especially true, given that in some states, the chief infringer of gun rights is that same federal government.
In the big scheme of things, a single poster on FR is not going to make the key difference. One of the main contributors to the present situation is Lawrence Tribe, the liberal legal academic. As a liberal who doesn't like guns, he lends great credibility to the idea that the Supreme Court must make adjustments to what has become an untenable claim by lower courts that no individual right exists.
Once the individual right is recognized, it will become much more difficult to use a case like Miller to permit such widespread and pernicious infringement. And once the federal government loses its ability to infringe, it will lose its appetite to permit state infringement.
The other element working strongly in our favor is the degree to which voters nationwide have expressed their displeasure with gun control. Democrats know it and are adjusting to it, though slowly and erratically.
We'll probably see soon how Hussein and McCain deal with gun rights. If the Heller decision goes as I hope, Obama and McCain will both have to make clear their support of lack of support for the decision.