Supreme Court Decision

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If you want a model for how a Supreme Court ruling of this magnitude works its way through the years, I recommend reviewing the actual historic record since the Court's 1973 ruling on abortion. What lawyers call "stare decisis" will keep the Supreme Court's latest ruling in place for the foreseeable future, no matter how many anti-gun judges might get on the Court. And unlike abortion, there are long standing legal precedents for firearms ownership and use in America. (Personally, I'm not afraid for my guns, not for now, or even for when they'll be my grandchildren's.) We've not even begun to see the power this latest ruling will have at rolling back existing anti-gun laws! Neither have those members of Congress who may be inclined to pander to the anti-gun lobby. We'll all have to wait and see, but I'm an optimist. I think we've just begun to turn the corner and are about to go the other way on a path that Lee Harvey Oswald led us to in 1963.

P.S. The American flirtation with socialism began with FDR in the 1930s, not with LBJ in the 1960s. The Summer of Love was 1967, not 1968.

P.P.S. I thought the "culture wars" of the '60s ended in the '80s. I don't know how much of a divide there may have been in other parts of the US, but I never saw that much of one in these parts (Ohio, Indiana & Kentucky), and what little there might have been left ended on September 11, 2001. There are still a lot of differences of opinion on a lot of things, but that's what makes for horse races and politics.