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Don't get your hopes up
Nov 20 2007 4:55pm
So, it looks very possible that the U.S. Supreme Court will examine the issue of the constitutionality of personal gun ownership for really the first time in 80 years. (link)
But I have lost faith in the idea that the Court will actually ever decide one of these divisive issues decisively one way or the other. The modern courts tend to instead "punt" on the big issues with narrow rulings that decide the specifics of the individual case before them rather than making landmark decisions that settle the larger, long-term, divisive constitutional questions that have plagued our society for generations. Hence, the constitutional uncertainties continue to vex us, forever unresolved, like an open societal wound that divides us all from our countrymen.
As Kurt Vonnegut might say: "So it goes".
Don't get your hopes up
Nov 20 2007 4:55pmSo, it looks very possible that the U.S. Supreme Court will examine the issue of the constitutionality of personal gun ownership for really the first time in 80 years. (link)
But I have lost faith in the idea that the Court will actually ever decide one of these divisive issues decisively one way or the other. The modern courts tend to instead "punt" on the big issues with narrow rulings that decide the specifics of the individual case before them rather than making landmark decisions that settle the larger, long-term, divisive constitutional questions that have plagued our society for generations. Hence, the constitutional uncertainties continue to vex us, forever unresolved, like an open societal wound that divides us all from our countrymen.
As Kurt Vonnegut might say: "So it goes".
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