Poll: Second Amendment and Supreme Court Ruling

[NYC_SKP]

Answering a 127-year old constitutional question, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to have a gun, at least in one’s home.
The Court, splitting 5-4, struck down a District of Columbia ban on handgun possession. Although times have changed since 1791, Justice Antonin Scalia said for the majority, “it is not the role of this Court to pronounce the Second Amendment extinct.”
http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/

Let's keep the poll simple. Fine points can be discussed in your comments.

Questions:

A. I agree with the ruling.

B. I generally support the Second Amendment to the Constitution.

[Renew Deal]

1. Here comes the shock

When many DUers realize that DU is a pro-gun site. And I don't mean that as a bad thing.

[NYC_SKP]

2. Is it the site, or...

Is it also the sentiments of an informed, progressive electorate painfully aware of what a control hungry malevolent government might become?

Oh dear, this could be another poll...(no).

I've got a very liberal/progressive genius hippie friend who joined the NRA last year. It surprised us all, but I understood.

[Junkdrawer]

3. No, just like the general population....

Gunners view "Gun Rights" as their #1 issue. (Which makes question the sincerity of Gunners who cliam to hate Bush.)

Most DUers (and most citizens) ignore the issue until it's in the news or it affects them personally.

[Mojorabbit]

4. Bush was on DC's

side in this issue, not the consstitutions. Guns were confiscated in NOLA after Katrina under this administration. I don't think this administration is terribly 2nd amendment friendly. I don't think they give a damn about the constitution.

[NYC_SKP]

5. Agreed, conspiracies anyone?

I'm not saying I'm in full agreement with some or all of the conspiracy theories out there, but if ever there was an administration capable of and willing to turn one into reality, it's the current one.

http://www.freedomfiles.org/war/fema.htm

Those founding fathers were prescient. The second amendment serves to secure the other nine.

[bean fidhleir]

6. If we're democrats and not merely Democrats, we should support EVERY SMIDGEON of the BOR

The people who put it together were not radical at all - the BOR represented the LEAST they thought the people would accept.

Everyone at that time had the example of Europe and especially Britain in front of them: you could be imprisoned for saying the "wrong" thing, for being "uppity", for having the "wrong" religion, for trying to defend yourself unless you were a member of the gentry, and on and on.

Nobody wanted to replicate that society because here, everyone was equal before the law - everyone who was a White male property-owner, anyway. There were no noble ranks, no people who owned whole villages and lived on the feudal rents, etc. And only a tiny fraction of the population wanted to replicate that over here too (you can guess who).

[NYC_SKP]

7. I heartily agree!

And the Second Amendment is that which may become most critical in maintaining or restoring any of the other nine.