The NRA may pretend to be disappointed that AK47s have not been made as easy to buy as rat poison, but Supreme Court Justice Alito just handed them a reason to bankrupt cities with suits over gun laws. Alito loves to chisel and narrow laws without seeming to "overturn" them, as long as corporations as individuals and individuals and individuals as vigilantes are protected. Who is the activist judge now?
In his reasoning he claims:
The Founders wrote the 2nd Amendment to protect state and local militias. After the Civil War, it protected freed slaves in the South during Reconstruction. Therefore, the right to a handgun has grown since the original intent of the Founders, and both rights apply now.
Individuals deserve handguns in their homes because they cannot expect law enforcement that makes them unnecessary. The Founders intended no constitutional right to personal safety except to own a handgun.
Voters can regulate some guns and some uses of guns, but gun owners can sue and sue FOR THE RIGHT TO SHOOT SOMEONE WITH A LEGAL HANDGUN MORE EASILY THAN I CAN SUE FOR THE RIGHT NOT TO BE SHOT.
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