I recognize that I haven’t responded to the counterargument that more guns actually promote safety. While my understanding of the available evidence leads me to disagree with this assessment, I will say only that the debate about the purpose and role of weapons in contemporary America is best left to our elected bodies rather than our unelected courts.Why is that your "understanding," Xan? If you have evidence, let's see it.
And "majority rule" should be the final arbiter of individual rights? Like when slavery was legal? Oh, but that's right--you maintain 2A is not an individual right. So if I have to take your word against, say, theirs, well why wouldn't I go with the student over the seasoned professors?
Besides, we all know "the people" referred to in the First Amendment also was intended to mean today's National Guard. No? (Nice little bit of sleight-of-mind there. Someone who didn't know better might not think to reference the Ninth and Tenth Amendments and see the deliberate distinction made between the states and the people. But good try.)
You Yalies are just as impressive as your Harvard counterparts.