The salient point here is that Heller, MacDonald, etc all rest on a single vote in the SCOTUS. If tragedy occurs and we lose a conservative justice, Obama appoints the replacement and your second amendment rights are finished.
Celebrations were premature because all Heller did was start the analysis of the limitations that can be placed on the Second Amendment. Heller stirred up the anti-gun groups, to become more desperate....that includes Obama and partially explains Fast & Furious.
These are VERY dangerous times with a 5-4 majority that is shaky, at best.
If you don't think someone like Obama and his ilk are capable of eliminating a SCOTUS Justice, especially, if electoral defeat is imminent, you are deluded.
In the words of the great philosopher, Yoda:
Victory? Victory, you say? Not a victory Heller is. Begun, this war has.
Something you may not realize. While the overall decision as to whether the DC gun ban was Constitutional or not was a 5-4 win... It was unanimous, both in the majority and dissent that the 2nd Amendment is an individual right.
That is very critical in the whole scheme of things.
When SCOTUS found the 2nd Amendment to be protected under the 14th, they opened doors for us big time. You may not realize it but with that decision, elected officials can no longer hide behind their office when sued over the 2nd Amendment.
The game has changed and we will prevail.
Something you may not realize. While the overall decision as to whether the DC gun ban was Constitutional or not was a 5-4 win... It was unanimous, both in the majority and dissent that the 2nd Amendment is an individual right.
That is very critical in the whole scheme of things.
When SCOTUS found the 2nd Amendment to be protected under the 14th, they opened doors for us big time. You may not realize it but with that decision, elected officials can no longer hide behind their office when sued over the 2nd Amendment.
The game has changed and we will prevail.
Re-read BCR’s comment with care. It does not “all rest on a single vote in the SCOTUS” because the court is being guided into a minefield of its own devising; should that “single vote” go the wrong way, SCOTUS opens a self-inflicted world of hurt. Those votes do not happen in a vacuum, they have direct and profound & untenable consequences on other sensitive issues. As he wrote, SCOTUS will face an unavoidable decision on NFA: should that “single vote” fail to overturn NFA then poll taxes will become legal - not an option a SCOTUS judge can or will take.
The war has been long under way. Opposing forces have made choices which will soon leave them the option of either surrender or falling off a cliff.
Oh, and if ANY of those “Fast & Furious” items are subject to NFA, the consequences to the perps magnify tenfold.