Waite’s response is widely regarded now as being racist and invalid, whereas Scalia’s decision and historical context are considered current and applicable. It’s interesting and revealing that you would fall back on Waite over Scalia.

Thomas Jefferson liked to go for walks with a gun. So do I. I’m not much for shooting rabbits and squirrels, but when I was younger, I could point to a particular branch on a tree and obliterate it. However, my particular preferences are not a justification for SCOTUS decisions, and neither are Tom’s.

You say that I “fail to understand the import” of an individual’s right to “keep and bear arms”. And yet this article references — more than once — SCOTUS decisions supporting ownership. It is the commerce, trading and licensing of guns that is at issue. And modern judges have supported States’ rights to control those issues.

You can insult, pontificate, demean, excuse and mansplain to your heart’s content, but unless you can actually disprove any claim I made, and the statements made by today’s conservative Supreme Court Judges, or the history they reference, then you have no business accusing me of misdirection.