It is a well-known fact of sales and advertising is that if you want to create demand for a product, you show it, extol its features and wonders, and then say, “…but you can’t have it.”
I have a similar reaction to a product when someone might want to prevent me from owning it: I get one.
Longtime Readers will be only too familiar with my attitude towards the AR-15 poodleshooter and its varmint ammo — the executive summary would be that I despise the frigging things.
However, the more that the anti-gun brigade wants to ban them as eeeevil assault rifles (“only the military”, “designed not to hunt but to kill humans” etc. etc. etc.), the more I think that every American citizen should own one (or more, as the urge takes).
Which is a long way of saying that I am really, really glad that I now have one: not because of any love I may have for the thing, but because now that I own one, I’m never going to give it up to any government agency, no matter what laws or restrictions the government may pass to make them illegal.
Were the Nanny Hoplophobe Set not so keen on banning them, I wouldn’t own one in a month of Sundays, because let’s just say that I might happen to have alternatives that I would consider far more effective in the AR-15’s purpose.
But regardless, I’m glad that I have a poodleshooter… simply because some asshole doesn’t want me to own one.
And it appears that as many as 15 million Americans feel the same way that I do — and very many likely for the same reason.
So while news items like this are very welcome, we sure as hell don’t need to have some super-lawyers (e.g. the USSC) explain the Second Amendment to us. We know what it means, regardless of what they think or how carefully they may parse penumbral meanings out of the Constitution.
As for the would-be gun-banning types: FOAD.