Citing the decisions of a court that has gotten so much wrong in the past isn't convincing.
The 2A says what it says, regardless of who says otherwise. No amount of pagentry or appeals to authority will change that.
On top of that, the 2A just *recognizes* the *fundamental human right* to...
Slaves were 3/5ths of a person until they weren't.
The people hiding Anne Frank were criminals.
The people who sent her to the death camp were just doing their job enforcing the law.
None of that is any more constitutional than FDRs internment of citizens with Japanese ancestors, or his confiscation of gold.
Just because the government gets away with violating the constitution doesn't change what it means and says.
Robbing a bank is still a crime, even if you get away with...
Because while there is a general exodus from the state, there is an even greater exodus from NYC.
So there are net people moving out of NYC and moving upstate.
They do have the English bill of rights from 1689 that guarantees an RKBA (limited to protestants, and weapons suitable to self defense, but an RKBA none the less), ours was derived from that.
Bill of Rights 1689 - Wikipedia Bill of Rights 1689 - Wikipedia
AI might upend the entire apple cart in the next 10 or 20 years.
Things might go *very* sideways depending on how that shakes out.
You could have a situation where productivity goes through the roof, so prices plummet all over the place, but at the same time most people won't be able to find...
The trick is I don't think I'll see the "get better" side of that in my lifetime, so I'd prefer the "get worse" side proceed as slowly as possible.
But, for sure, it's going to get a lot worse before it gets better.
That's what the controversy is about here.
Trump's DOJ is pursuing the argument that it's still a tax even at $0.
And since SCOTUS already upheld a tax that you're not allowed to pay at all in the '86 shenanigans, it's not clear that they will reach the only logical conclusion here.
Maybe...