Editorial: The Supreme Court won't settle the 2nd Amendment dispute, but it can prevent disaster

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : Yet it's nearly as mind-boggling to realize that the court just might do that and expand upon the gun rights enunciated in Heller, in an era in which Americans fatally shoot their fellow citizens or themselves about 40,000 times each year, sudden and inexplicable mass killings are common, homicide is skyrocketing, and some urban areas feel like they're in perpetual lockdown for fear of gun crime.
54% : It's ludicrous, of course, to imagine the court solemnly opining that the gun rights enunciated in the 18 century prevent restrictions against openly carrying loaded firearms at a town hall meeting.
51% : The court may expand gun rights yet try to draw a line (at public parks but not public schools?
49% : States have long made their own decisions about how to balance residents' safety with their gun rights, based on the values expressed by voters at the polls and their representatives in the legislature.

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