Reply #2: Part of that change is incorporation. 'No test of religion' got incorporated in 1961

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Seems some nutters in NC don't grok that. I sincerely hope that McDonald v. Chicago does the same for the Second Amendment.

More than 3/4 of the states agree with me:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=118x274215

Maine Becomes 38th State To Ask SCOTUS To Incorporate 2nd Amendment.

I agree wholeheartedly with TheWraith's comment:

TheWraith (1000+ posts) Sat Dec-12-09 12:45 AM
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1. Good. Wish we'd incorporate all the amendments and get it over with.
I've never seen the validity to this half-assed selective enforcement of the constitution

I would say that the fear of "those people" having firearms has prevented incorporation of the 2A up until now.

Even the wingers' St. Ronnie Reagan signed the Mulford Act in California as a response to open carry by the Black Panthers.

Of course some people aren't down with incorporation at all:

http://www.americamagazine.org/content/article.cfm?article_id=11978&comments=1#readcomments

....Kristen Rand, legislative director at the nonprofit Violence Policy Center in Washington, D.C., pointed out to America that such weapons all come from jurisdictions without strong laws like Chicago’s. “You can’t buy a handgun in Chicago or the District of Columbia legally, so traffickers go to states with weaker laws and then bring them to the cities that don’t allow their purchase.” For Ms. Rand and other gun control advocates, one of the worst aspects of a victory by those who mounted McDonald v. Chicago would be that it would remove what she called “the most effective measures to prevent handgun violence.” She observed that the Supreme Court in both Heller and now in McDonald is examining the issue solely as a question of constitutional law....

Aside from pointing out that Chacago's handgun ban isn't actually effective, aren't the Supremes supposed to do what
Ms. Rand objects to?