A 5-4 conservative court essentially rewrote the Second Amendment to create a right for individuals to posses a gun. Even though there are some who say the Second Amendment should be repealed, the amendment itself is not the issue. If the framers wanted to create a constitutional right to gun ownership, then they would have made the Second Amendment a mirror of the First Amendment. During Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings in 2020, she argued against the idea that Roe was “superprecedent,” meaning that it should never be overturned. The danger the Heller decision poses is still very immediate.

Source: CNN May 28, 2022 09:35 UTC