• fubarx@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    2nd Amendment wasn’t a big thing until the Supreme Court decided in Heller that the whole ‘well-regulated militia’ part was a nothingburger. Then the floodgates opened.

    All you need is for another Supreme Court to put that part back in and restrict gun use to ‘well-regulated militias.’

    It’s a lower bar than a constitutional amendment, but good luck putting the genie back in the bottle.

    • Jordan Lund@lemmy.one
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      Oh, absolutely agreed, but keep in mind that Heller was in 2008 and the court has only gotten MORE conservative since then, not less.

      Here’s a fun stat:

      Looking just at the Supreme Court in my lifetime (have to start somewhere!), we have had 8 Republican Presidential terms and 6 Democratic ones. Not a dramatic difference, right? Now look at the Justices placed on the court:

      https://www.supremecourt.gov/about/members_text.aspx

      Nixon - 3
      Nixon/Ford - 1
      Reagan - 1
      Reagan - 2
      Bush Sr. - 2
      Bush Jr. - 0
      Bush Jr. - 2
      Trump - 3

      Carter - 0
      Clinton - 2
      Clinton - 0
      Obama - 2
      Obama - 0*
      Biden - 1

      54 years, 14 Republican Justices to 5 Democratic ones.