[broken_clock]

Texas governor Greg Abbott nailed it when he said, “the RKBA was settled in 1791 when the 2nd Amendment was adopted”.

[vigilence]

Call me crazy but until the Supreme Court affords the Second Amendment the same protections as the others, meaning that individual states cannot supersede Federally guaranteed fundamental rights as expressed in the Bill of Rights that currently make the Second Amendment a hodge podge of fifty different interpretations, equal rights under the law will continue to be a mockery to the intentions of the founders.

[zeugma]

The frustration for 2A supporters of late has been “why won’t the Court take any 2A cases to enforce Heller?” The short answer has been that the Court was in a classic Mexican standoff, with four justices (Roberts, Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch) being strongly pro-2A and four (Ginsburg, Breyer, Karen, and Sotomayor) prepared to gut Heller . . . and a notoriously unpredictable Anthony Kennedy with the swing vote. Neither side could be sure which way he’d go, and thus neither side wanted to risk losing. And so lower courts learned that they could defy Heller with impunity.

This is absolutely true. Thomas penned a dissent to a Per Curiam decision (a really unusual event) this year that said essentially the same thing.

[KyCats]

It all depends now on choosing a principled constitutionalist to replace Kennedy and then getting him/her confirmed. A crucial moment in history!

[shanover]

Many say abortion is the greatest Constiuional issue. This is true on its merit but the Second Amendment is vital.

[sergeantdave]

Everyone is not seeing the elephant in the room. Where does it say that unelected black-robes can determine what is or what is not constitutional and make that decision binding on United States citizens?

That judicial power doesn’t exist. What’s needed is an originalist US Congress willing to impeach and remove judges who have overstepped their proper role, which is to act as an advisory body to the congress and president in constitutional matters.