The Supreme Court’s Heller decision came down in June 2008.

Written by Antonin Scalia, the ruling held that the Second Amendment guaranteed an individual right to own firearms.

It has been used to gut efforts at gun control since.

@walkerbragman As so ruled:a guaranteed right “WITHIN THE HOME” and, importantly, SUBJECT TO REASONABLE RESTRICTIONS OUTSIDE THE HOUSE, and very importantly, “NOT A LIMITLESS RIGHT.” But those points are downplayed on the right, forgotten on the left and unknown to the center because of silence by the media.