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Email I just received from Tom Gresham.

Trust me on this one — the lawsuits are already written to set the stage for incorporation. This would require another journey through the court system, to the Supreme Court. Some very smart people have mapped that trek, and they are lacing on their hiking boots.

As you talk with friends about this case, and you write letters to the editor (because we just know the papers will take a decidedly anti-gun rights slant to this), you might try this one. For some reason, many people get confused with the grammar and structure of the Second Amendment’s wording. They have said that the first part (”A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state . . .” restricts the second part, so that only the militia has the “right to keep and bear arms.”

Try this one. “A well-educated people, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and read books shall not be infringed.” Now, ask them if this means that only well-educated people could keep and read books, or does it mean that everyone can have books as a means to produce a well-educated people.

Yes, there will be wailing from the loons on both sides of this issue. On the gun rights side, some have fretted that Alan Gura threw them under the bus by telling the court that this case is not about machine guns. Some folks drive fast with only their parking lights on, I guess, rendering them incapable of seeing very far down the road. If Gura had told the court he wanted to remove the (illegal) restrictions on machine guns, the court would have ruled against gun rights.

Patience, Grasshopper. We now have one foot solidly on the rock of constitutional rights. Now, we begin.

This will be the big story for the next week, and it will certainly affect the presidential election. While it’s clear to anyone who isn’t a fool that Obama has a solid record of supporting not only restrictions on citizens’ gun rights, but he actually favors gun bans, the Heller decision will force a discussion on gun rights. It also will bring the all-important subject of Supreme Court nominations into the discussion.

Tune in to Sunday’s Gun Talk radio show for the latest news and analysis on this ground-breaking gun rights case.

Tom Gresham