This is evidenced by news “articles” in which editorial comments are inserted into news stories in places like the NY Times claiming bizarre things (on their own front page!) as that DC vs Heller “won't have any significant impact” anywhere, anytime, ever.
And this “lashing out” is also evidenced in the dissents filed by Stevens and Breyer that make claims (e.g. that there were urban gun bans in 1776 America) that they can not support with evidence.
Snap!
In the above we can find solace...for the Left has overstretched itself. Their claims are being laid bare.
For another example, consider that for *decades* the academic Left has invented (from whole cloth) and propagated a “collective rights” theory to explain why the 2nd Amendment allowed gun bans.
No more!
Now “collective rights” are dead.
Individual rights have triumphed...and even wild-eyed left-wing bastions of great legal heft (e.g. Harvard Law School) will have to begin teaching individual rights while stuffing “collective rights” theories down the memory hole...or at least...after this initial period of the Left lashing out at the Heller ruling has passed, *then* they will have to begin teaching individual rights in law schools.
And notice that I say “begin.”
What a sad state of affairs that our last several *decades* have seen law schools teach rubbish instead of actual Constitutional Law.
That ends here.
DC vs Heller is a game changer.
The Constitution means what it says, and the Bill of Rights protect individual rights.
For the Left, this is a radical rethink (but then again, that's why they are the Left while we've always been right).
Excellent points!!
John / Billybob
Spot on!