Shouldn't someone make a law protecting gun owner rights?

[CapnMac]

Let's see, FOPA

Let's us travel from state to state, as long as we completely disarm along the way, under lock and key, and not to be arrested (mostly).

Hughes Amendment.

Oh, our 'win' bureaucrats forced to pinky-swear to delete gun records after 48 hours and not make any sort of registry of them.

Another FOPA? I'm not in a hurry.

In fact, I'd much rather see some house cleaning. Over 20,000 "gun laws" in this country, and no two the same. "Our" identity has been pushed into a corner of "must be 100% law-abiding. Yet, there is no possible way to know every single 'common' law let alone the hundreds of thousands of regulatory laws on the books.

 

[bearcreek]

My question to bearcreek is sincere. I don't understand how you can think its not up to the 9 robes. And therefore, 'who' makes up the 9 can make a big difference.

It sure does make a difference, you're right about that. Imagine if the English Parliament of the 1770's or George the III had been different? The world might be a very different place today. It's only up to the 9 "robes" so long as they make decisions that are just and keep the people free from the potential tyranny of the Legislative and Executive branches. That is their purpose.

They aren't 9 robots making decisions. They're 9 humans.

This is actually a bit of a problem. In many ways, they are supposed to act like robots. They have data that they are required to act upon and nothing more. Unfortunately they often act as humans and inject their own opinions into decisions.

 

[bearcreek]

Well regulated part already exists, it's called background checks. So people who go through background checks can count as a regulated militia.

Well regulated as it is used in the 2A has absolutely nothing to do with regulations and certainly nothing to do with background checks. It meant well trained and prepared. The militia at that time was generally considered to be any male between roughly the ages of 16-65 or so. The idea was that that age group was to aquire and possess the same training and weapons as the military of the time.

 

[bearcreek]

The 2nd Amendment could be repealed. The Constitution lays out what has to happen to add an amendment or repeal one. To date only the 18th Amendment has been repealed.

The big difference though is that the purpose of the 2A is to preserve the people's ability to prevent it's repeal or the repeal of any other of the freedoms specified in the Constitution through threat of effective violence.

 

[Frank Ettin]

There is a fundamental legal principle that one legislature may not pass a law binding a future legislature.

The thing is the constitution already gave a way to have that....

The Constitution is not a statute. Procedures for amending the Constitution are different from those for amending or repealing a statute.