Here’s a very good article about the Second Amendment and the Supreme Court in the context of this year’s election.
It illustrates the fact that firearms are indeed subject to reasonable restrictions, that current Second Amendment jurisprudence is settled and accepted, and that should Hillary Clinton be elected president, the Second Amendment right will in no way be ‘endangered,’ nor is
Heller ‘at risk’ at being ‘overturned’:
“Heller is unlikely to be overturned. There are several high-profile cases that are likely to be reversed by a liberal Supreme Court, such as
Citizens United and
Shelby County. Heller, however, is not one of them. While there is no doubt that several of the justices believe
Heller was wrongly decided
, they have little reason to overturn the decision and every reason to maintain it.
Heller was a narrow decision that did not fundamentally reshape America’s regime of gun laws. The Court held that individuals have a right to have handguns in their homes. But only two cities, Washington and Chicago, and no states, had laws prohibiting handgun possession. (Chicago allowed residents to have long guns for self-defense.) In the eight years since
Heller, there have been several hundred lawsuits challenging nearly every type of gun law on the books. Only a few laws, however, have been invalidated.
Even the justices who dissented in Heller now understand that the decision has not proved to be a roadblock to effective gun laws. All the laws at the top of the gun-control agenda—universal background checks, assault-weapons bans, and restrictions on high-capacity magazines—have all survived judicial scrutiny since
Heller. Why would justices favorable to gun control vote to overturn a case that doesn’t actually stop lawmakers from regulating guns?”
A Liberal Supreme Court Will Not Impact Gun Laws
Why indeed.
Clearly the lies contrived by some on the right that ‘liberals’ want to ‘ban guns’ or ‘abolish’ the Second Amendment are ridiculous and completely devoid of merit – in fact, liberals acknowledge and support
Heller as settled, accepted case law, consistent with their support and correct understanding that the Supreme Court determines what the Constitution means, where those rulings become the law of the land.
Last, and ironically, it’s conservatives who, for the most part, have come to despise and regret
Heller, where they are at odds with Scalia and his reaffirmation of the fact that the Second Amendment right is not ‘absolute.’
Conservatives were truly ignorant and naïve to believe that the
Heller Court would have ruled in such a manner that necessary, proper, and Constitutional firearm regulatory measures such as background checks, the prohibition of felons from possessing firearms, and the regulation of the commercial sales of firearms would be ‘invalidated’ and rendered ‘un-Constitutional.
