Strange Bedfellows - When regular

Strange Bedfellows - When regular people get together to talk about gun owners' rights, they discuss the practical aspects of the issue; "do guns in the hands of the law-abiding make us all safer"? It's an argument that the gun-rights movement has largely won, on the merits of a strong, unrefuted case.

When wonks gather to discuss the issue, it's more likely to turn to talk of is there really a right to keep and bear arms. There, the issue is both clearer and murkier. The Second Amendment is not a well-written piece of legislation, although a majority of our premier legal minds support the notion that the right to keep and bear arms is an individual, not group, right. Even pre-eminent constitutional scholar Laurence Tribe, after years of claiming the Amendment referred to a group right (the misunderstood "well-regulated militia"), changed his mind - largely on the strength of the reasoning of constitutional legal scholar Sanford Levinson.

Now, something I never believed I'd see in my lifetime - liberal antigun zealot Senator Chuckie Schumer has come out supporting the concept of the individual right.

The Berlin Wall falling in our lifetimes was nothing compared to this...