10 April 2008

What if?

I just read a piece on how the NRA tries to torpedo any litigation that will come up with a definitive ruling on the Second Amendment. NRA is usually shorthand for the RKBA crowd, especially since it is the most widely known of the groups. Also, the NRA tends to have alienated most gun owners by not serving their interests. But that's another post.

I am musing on the possibility that SCOTUS could surprise the pundits with a collective right ruling on DC v. Heller. Of course, that doesn't make any sense of the rebuttal argument where CJ Roberts and J Scalia grilled Dellinger on gun locks. Dellinger failing to take the point that the Second Amendment merely protects the right of an Article I, Section 8 "militia".

The problem is that the questions could be seen as going two ways.

Whatever, I think that the wrong thing will come from this litigation since there is a desire to appease the interest of the RKBA crowd in the outcome of this decision.