A big problem is at various times and places the court system has patiently decided not to follow the constitution and to make its own rules despite language many Americans would agree is not ambiguous.
How do we change this? I don't know...
What I have been told is legal language is so far different from common English that we simply don't understand what we are reading. Is it true? I don't know but some of the most experienced people here in this forum seem to believe this, so maybe it’s true.
What I think is that at times the court including the supreme court has made decisions based only on personal politics of the judges involved and not what the constitutions says, its a huge problem.
The additional complication it seems the SCOTUS has intentionally avoided even taking a stance on various constitutional issues concerning 2A for a very long time when it could have been spelled out long ago. I mean come on this country has been around this long and they only now have ruled we have a right to "handguns" and the other types of arms weren't included or specifically spelled out as not being included under the right... The whole thing is just a bad way to do business.
Finally for myself the only possible fix I can ever see is for a Constitutional Convention to actually spellout what arms we have a right to and for some what specific violations of law are able to take that right away. (Risky at best in todays world of back door deals.)
The system we currently have is just a mess with such a variety of state, federal and local laws its a wonder anyone can do or own much of anything.
How do we change this? I don't know...
What I have been told is legal language is so far different from common English that we simply don't understand what we are reading. Is it true? I don't know but some of the most experienced people here in this forum seem to believe this, so maybe it’s true.
What I think is that at times the court including the supreme court has made decisions based only on personal politics of the judges involved and not what the constitutions says, its a huge problem.
The additional complication it seems the SCOTUS has intentionally avoided even taking a stance on various constitutional issues concerning 2A for a very long time when it could have been spelled out long ago. I mean come on this country has been around this long and they only now have ruled we have a right to "handguns" and the other types of arms weren't included or specifically spelled out as not being included under the right... The whole thing is just a bad way to do business.
Finally for myself the only possible fix I can ever see is for a Constitutional Convention to actually spellout what arms we have a right to and for some what specific violations of law are able to take that right away. (Risky at best in todays world of back door deals.)
The system we currently have is just a mess with such a variety of state, federal and local laws its a wonder anyone can do or own much of anything.
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