For whatever reason, real or psychological, the final court is not taking Second Amendment cases, why in the mean time it does not tell the lower courts that opinions related to the matter, like that of the Heller case, should be taken as mere arguments and are not required to be followed until further notice? The additional input from those courts could provide questions to somebody taking a position like mine here while this court can look at both that additional input and its counter arguments. The current situation of having the appellate courts make varying interpretations for how to follow the opinions of this court regarding the Second Amendment should not be confused as allowing those courts to interpret the Amendment according to what they believe from the root. If the court is paused on this matter (even if because of being possessed by some evil spirit) then why not take advantage from this pause throughout all the judicial process not just its last point? I was thinking today why don't I look for how appellate courts were ruling on Second Amendment cases before the Heller case but even that could be just following previous rulings by this court on the matter and far from being the result of original thinking of those courts (Although I realized that the current pause by this court on the matter is probably more of the result of their voting on cases than it is being itself a decision that was agreed upon).
For us outside, it also needs to be noticed that it is not helping the cause when doing things like, for example, possessing a stun gun but then go to this court complaining of the consequences of a state law against that and make this court find no alternative to save the complaining party except by applying its previous opinions about the Second Amendment while it wants to pause from doing that. In other words, if you believe that the Second Amendment no longer guarantees a right to possession of Arms then that would go both ways, for and against you, even when your state make a decision as ridiculous as forbidding stun guns but allowing real ones.
For us outside, it also needs to be noticed that it is not helping the cause when doing things like, for example, possessing a stun gun but then go to this court complaining of the consequences of a state law against that and make this court find no alternative to save the complaining party except by applying its previous opinions about the Second Amendment while it wants to pause from doing that. In other words, if you believe that the Second Amendment no longer guarantees a right to possession of Arms then that would go both ways, for and against you, even when your state make a decision as ridiculous as forbidding stun guns but allowing real ones.
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