the POTUS picks Supreme Court Justices. Currently a HUGE lawsuit to restore the draconian gun laws in Washington DC is before the Supreme court. I will have to vote for the strongest 2nd amendment candidate first in the primaries and then in the general election......
its the 2nd Amendment that protects the rest of the constitution. It is our most precious freedom.
You can count on Hillary appointing liberals, irrespect of the gun issue. You can reasonably expect any of the GOP candidates to appoint conservatives, with the possible exception of McCain, irrespective of the gun issue. Of course, the S.Ct. may well weigh in on guns, but we won’t have any say on what they do, so I’m not sure if I would call it an issue.
And Romney is on the record saying he supports the appeals court ruling and hopes the Supreme court rules in favor of the 2nd amendment.
And his judicial advisory team includes people from Fred Thompson’s team.
I have no doubt he’d appoint judges that would match his philosophy on this issue.
I hate to say this, but as an issue, the 2nd ammendment takes precidence over many other concerns (ie. abortion, taxes, etc.). We lose this right and America morphs into it's ugly cousin: socialized tyranny. Rampant crime will invite the new tyranny. Unopposed government spending will institute the new socialism.
The anti-federalists seem to have won the argument. Little did they know that 300 million people later we'd ignore their advice and face an election where the majority wouldn't, and our legislators couldn't, give a damn about a piece of paper that they risked their lives signing.