Reply #38: This is very unusual.

[Laelth]

... and it makes me nervous. The Supreme Court has never established a scrutiny level for rights protected under the Second Amendment. So far, the Court has been content to allow states and the Appeals Courts to set their own policies regarding gun control. Why, I wonder, has the Court decided to take up this issue now?

I don't know, but I fear that the Court will find that second amendment rights are protected at low scrutiny, meaning that the government can take away that right if it has, merely, a rational basis for doing so. If you had asked me in 2000 whether I supported reasonable gun control, I would have said "yes." Now, fearing martial law and the collapse of American democracy after seven years of Bush, I'm having serious doubts.

:scared:

-Laelth