[rhino369]

During the time Obama was a lecturer the conventional wisdom on the limits of the second amendment weren't so clear cut. Many believe there was no individual right to bear arms. Certainly many professors believed that too. Erwin Chemerinsky, one of the most respected constitutional scholars thought DC's handgun ban was constitutional before Heller.

I bet President Obama's conlaw course didn't even cover the second amendment. Mine didn't and I went to school after Heller and Mcdonald.

In fact, when SCOTUS finally acknowledged the individual right in 2008, four justices didn't agree with the decision. If Scalia or Thomas dropped dead, you'd see a whole new line of cases tightening gun rights.

>Note: My guess is that he, like most sane adults, question the need for possession of a or multiple military-grade rifles or sub-machines capable of killing considerable numbers of human beings in a short space of time.

Our problem is pretty much the opposite of this. It's the handguns that are the scourge of America.

If you want to solve gun violence in America you would have ban (and successfully confiscate) all hanguns and semi-auto rifles and shutguns. Cheap handguns are the source of essentially all gun crime if you round to the nearest 10%.