The real “progressives” want it to be a “national right”.
Leftist Joining with the NRA: http://www.newsweek.com/id/234185
The reaffirming and getting conservatives attached to the principle of “incorporation” has far more dire consequences to limited government then you know.
This is in fact a Pyrrhic victory.
The Court should be Overturning “incorporation” NOT reaffirming it!
Now the Idiots in the NRA will be solidly on the side of maintainable “incorporation”. Gun rights wont be safe either because now not only will the States have them “reasonable exceptions” to gun rights, the Federal government will have EXACTLY the same justification to impose the same “reasonable exceptions”.
Only the federal government will uses them “reasonable exceptions” not just to Disarm the individual people of weapons capable of standing up to them, but our States as well making us utterly helpless against the federal government!
Just encase you don’t believe that will happen your already too late as it has already begun
Remember the Tennessee Guardsman?: http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/usnews/constitution/2807-rich-hamblen-challenges-the-supreme-court-to-uphold-the-second-amendment
Incorporating the 2nd amendment has just made it much harder for usurpations like this to be overturn.
Anyone who thinks this is a good thing is a short sighted fool!
see 54...thats been my gut since they accepted this case, after the wishy washy heller opinions...
I'm sure that there will be another court case on the meaning of the word "infringed," and the Ninth Circuit will rule that "infringed" means "shot all to bloody hell," while the Fifth Circuit will rule that it means "unsullied by government law or regulation," and that glaring conflict between the Circuits will be a key basis for granting certiorari.
Like Heller, this case is not the end of the battle, it's the beginning, though it looks to become a major victory and a foundation for what's to come.