You weren't alone -- a lot of folks predicted either that or 6 - 3. Gave SCOTUS a little too much credit. NO surprise that (Ford appointed) Stevens and (Bush Sr. appointed) Souter went with the gun-grabbers on this. Thank God Alito replaced O'Conner; Sandy very well may have joined Ginsburg and Co. today.
I’m not sure I like what I’m reading on that SCOTUSblog at the bottom of the quotes section:
“On the question of the Second Amendment’s application to the States: “23 With respect to Cruikshank’s continuing validity on incorporation, a question not presented by this case, we note that Cruikshank also said that the First Amendment did not apply against the States and did not engage in the sort of Fourteenth Amendment inquiry required by our later cases. Our later decisions in Presser v. Illinois, 116 U. S. 252, 265 (1886) and Miller v. Texas, 153 U. S. 535, 538 (1894), reaffirmed that the Second Amendment applies only to the Federal Government.””
The District of Columbia isn’t a state, so it’s regulated by the feds. Does this mean that the state and local governments can still make any law they want that restricts our Second Amendment rights?
I think you do Sandra Day O’Connor an injustice in believing she wouldn’t have voted in favor of the Second Amendment right to bear arms.
She owns guns and hunts from what I’ve heard.
BUT, as far as other issues go, it’s much better to have Alito than O’Connor.