“I am utterly dismayed that something so readily apparent…so basic in principle and logic…so fundamental in our basic rights…has so narrow of an affirmation by the highest court in the land. Folks, my apprehensions about the direction of this country have never been more profound. I will take the good news, but I will not feel any ease whatsoever.”
I’m actually quite tickled at the ruling. My fear all along has been that the Court would take the collectivist interpretation. That’s why I’ve never been a fan of suing for our gun rights. I’m happy to be shown at least partly wrong.
This went very well considering how it could have gone. We never will get a single Court ruling that is going to widely expand our gun rights. But this opens up a new front for us. We now have a Court ruling that can be used to expand our rights further. That does not negate what we’ve always done: fight for our gun rights in the legislatures.
I view this as being analagous to free speech rights in the 1920’s. During that time period, you had little right as a practical matter to engage in controversial speech that would now be considered routine. It’ll take time, but 10 or 20 years from now, we will likely be in a much better position than we are now with regard to our gun rights.
We've been losing for sixty years, from the 1934 National Firearms Act until the 1994 Assault Weapons ban. For the last ten years we've been losing some and gaining some. It seems the tide turned with 2004 sunset of the Assault Weapons Ban and now a very big surge in freedom's direction with this Supreme Court Ruling. Repealing most of the rest of the unconstitutional laws infringing on our RKBA may take another sixty years -- one step at a time - with Chicago being the next step -- thanks to Alan Gura.