LJ;1088706 wrote:Letting the AWB ban expire, multiple supreme court cases reassuring the 2nd amendment and shooting down local laws, more and more states easing up on concealed carry (and Wisconsin even adopting it). Things are on the right track. There are even bills in Congress that want to allow nationwide carry and so on. I feel like things have drastically improved over the past 10 years.
I agree some states have stepped up their actions to protect individual's 2nd Amendment rights. On a side note, why does anything in the Bill of Rights need protected? Don't they already exist?...why would they need protected? Unless, of course, someone/something is doing everything they can to take them away. As we've seen time and time again, if the feds want to take away guns and run roughshod over the states, there's nothing they can or will do about it short of secession.
However, there was a very important 2nd Amendment gun-rights case that came upon the Supreme Court in 2010 -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonald_v._Chicago In the end, the people's right to bear arms was protected by a whopping 5-4 vote. In other words, if just one more person in a black robe ruled against the 2nd Amendment, then just think of the assault it would be under today. That's how close we are to losing the only Amendment that protects Americans from tyrannical rule.
If Barry wins in November and one of the 5 that voted "for" protecting the Bill of Rights retires/dies, we will indeed see the end of it in our lifetime. That's how important November 6, 2012 is to the future of the republic founded 236 years ago.