Obama's Speech or Supreme Court on Gun Rights...which is more important?

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Entroper said:

Parokki said:
I find it a bit silly how people think the right to bear arms is inviolable due to the 2nd ammendment. That stuff was written over 200 years ago in a pre-industrial frontier society that had little or no law enforcements, and was under imminent threat of foreign invasion.

There are arguments for and against gun control, but some really smart guys saying this and that 200 years ago is a very bad one.

It doesn't matter when it was written.  The Constitution is the supreme document of law, and it supersedes everything else.  If we can all agree (two thirds of the house and senate, and three fourths of the states) that part of it is outdated, we can amend the Consititution to fix the outdated section.  But without such an Amendment, we must abide by what the Constitution says.  All the Supreme Court can do is decide on the precise meaning of the Constitution and whether or not a law is constitutional.

Well, with such a majority needed I don't think there is a big chance of the law being changed, although a majority of the people could be in favour for change. Ironicly, the biggest chance of changing the second amendment is to actually take up arms and overthrow the government to change the constitution.