re: #18 Great White Snark

And those restrictions have held up.

And I’m telling you they are being eroded in many places. Perhaps I just live in one where it’s more obvious, compared to you. There are significantly fewer legal restrictions on where you can have handguns in Texas now than in 1994. A lot of this is driven by a subculture that interprets the 2nd amendment, with respect to handguns specifically, as absolute in a way that you apparently don’t. (Where do you think the phrase “constitutional carry” came from?)

Enacting essentially any gun control measures these days, even ones you would personally find allowed in the context of Heller, is a political non-starter. Whether or not Heller allows restrictions is not the point; it’s that it opened the gates to demanding more guns everywhere.

I have never said that Heller eliminates all gun restrictions; that is a strawman. What I have said is that it encourages people to weaken the political ability to enact reasonable gun restrictions.