[Lazamataz]

The only problem I have with that idea is that I don't trust the courts to make "common-sense" modifications of the law

Neither do I, so I am satisfied with the status quo and the analysis I have done, with an eye towards perhaps freeing up the restrictions on fully automatic guns somewhat for civilian ownership, based on my discrimination argument.

[inquest]

But don't you see the hole that you're digging yourself into by doing that? When you encourage the courts to go off the board with regard to what the law says, then you're riding a wild horse; you can't really control them after that. "Whoopee! We don't have to hold ourselves to the law!" Do you really think that they're going to use the power that you've encouraged them to grab, in the manner that you'd want them to? The only way to keep these jokers under control is to demand of them a strict fealty to the law. Then, if you want to change how the law is applied, then you'd have to change the law itself. That's the bargain we made 200 years ago. We need to make it stick again.