Reply #195: The second amendment was a compromise, as you well know

[jgraz]

backed off from Jefferson's desire to have no standing armies in the US. That's why the language is so carefully framed and so unfortunately ambiguous. BTW, the Tenth Amendment also deals with states' rights, so the Second is not alone here.

The concept of no individual RKBA is currently the law of the land, until these cases make it to your precious Bush Court. Both decisions fly in the face of Stare Decisis, something which all of the Bush appointees have said they will uphold (of course, they were lying).

So, now the supposed "liberal" gun fetishists are left in the awkward position of cheering on this immoral, subliterate farce of a Supreme Court as they once again invent law based on their own political ideology. Now Scalito will allow you to own a machine gun. Woohoo. Maybe you can use it to hold off the cops while your daughter has an abortion.