America's deadly devotion to guns.

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89. education for you

Miller decided nothing, that is why both sides claimed it a victory. Miller only said a sawed offed shotgun was not a protected weapon. Miller was dead, so counsel did not give argument or file a brief.
Presser was a "states rights" case about private armies.


Cruickshank was also a "states rights". It made the civil rights laws at the time unenforceable. Cruickshank was one of the worst SCOTUS decisions because it made Jim Crow possible.

The First Amendment right to assembly was not intended to limit the powers of the State governments in respect to their own citizens and the Second Amendment has no other effect than to restrict the powers of the national government.

Nothing about well regulated militia there

The fourteenth amendment prohibits a State from depriving any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; but this adds nothing to the rights of one citizen as against another.

made civil rights laws of the time unenforceable.

Heller did not over turn Cruickshank, McDonald did. Actually, McDonald finished it off, parts of Cruickshank have been overturned since the 1930s.