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CyborgSage00x0 posted...

You should have read the topic more: The Supreme Court has gotten it *correct* for the last 200+ years. Time after time again, they reaffirmed that the 2nd does NOT give private citizens, detached from any state militia, a Constitutional right to guns.

That's a relatively new idea in American politics, and only became a reality in 2008 Heller decision, a nakedly partisan 5-4 ruling. Thinking it's always been that way is historical revisionist thinking.

Souter dissented on the decision and he was a Bush Senior republican pick. It wasn't an entirely partisan decision and in fact the decision, at least as it pertains to partisanship, was weighted toward anti-gun.

I'm not going to write an entire essay here, but you're missing a number of other supreme court decisions which positively or negatively affected the right to bear arms over the years. Mcdonald v. Chicago in 2010. Heller of course. US vs Cruikshank in 1875. Presser vs. Illinois in 1886. United States vs. Miller in 1939. Thats not to mention the however many cases that have gone to federal judges or state court judges that never made it to the supreme court (and there's a lot).

Many of the older cases regarded restricted the federal government from negating the second amendment and left the decision largely up to the states with the exception of the few recent cases which have been more unilateral in their decisions to support gun ownership against the will of the state.

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