Please tell me what did conservatives in Congress do about all those gun control laws. Rudy is not responsible for gun control.
They're doing it in the State legislatures. Haven't you noticed all the ululation from the gun-grabbers about "shall-issue" legislation passing into law?
Rudy is not responsible for gun control.
But he would sign a new law, if business people came to him and told him they thought it was time to abolish the Second by federal statute and begin registering firearms for later confiscation.
(This isn't just fantasy, btw -- the Pew political sociology survey of 1999 showed very, very weak support for RKBA among business-oriented Republicans. Uneasy lies the head, et cetera. It isn't beyond practical politics at all, for the gun-grabbers to seek a rapprochement with the RiNO's that would give them a national "regifiscation" law.)
And if SCOTUS got a challenge to the Sullivan Act or the 1987 gun-control act with Giuliani in the White House, they'd "read the election returns" and uphold U.S. vs. Miller and repeal the Second themselves, by interpreting it out of existence as SCOTUS and Franklin Roosevelt tried to do in Miller.
A real conservative in the White House means the Solicitor General arguing a full-court press for 2A/RKBA before SCOTUS with the President's full backing. Think that wouldn't make a difference?
Or maybe you think all us conservative knuckle-draggers west of the Mississippi shouldn't own guns anyway. Bad for us, bad for society, et cetera et cetera.
Plus, Giuliani would never nominate a strict-constructionist to the Supreme Court. He'd put up a Bar Association favorite -- some trimmer or New York Bar Association past president from the First Circuit. A Hume idolater, a Hamiltonian like himself -- a Big Business Republican, a Bonesman, someone "above the salt". He would never on God's green earth nominate a Clarence Thomas or even a Sandra Day O'Connor to the Supreme Court. We'd get nothing but Ginzburgs and Souters from Rudy. As witness his appointments in New York, all made with a weather eye toward their "political acceptability" (RiNOspeak for "will I get any heat from The New York Times over this appointment?").
And I can only imagine what his position on Open Borders and "North America"/supranational government would be like.