A plea about "Heller"

[Volokh, Eugene]

	Folks:  My apologies for being pedantic, but it strikes me as
interesting that we're now talking about what happens "after Heller" --
even before the right has been incorporated against the states -- when
at least 40 of the 50 states have individual self-defense rights to bear
arms in their state constitutions.  The federal Constitution seems to
have gotten such a grip on our consciousness (even though we're
constitutional law professors) that we talk about a Second Amendment
that hasn't yet been incorporated (and might not get incorporated)
rather than the state constitutional rights that have long been the law
in most of the country.  I find myself slipping into this pattern at
times as well.

	Hence my plea, which I again acknowledge is a little pedantic
but which might help us shed our federal blinders:  Let's talk about the
right to bear arms, state and federal, rather than the Second Amendment
and Heller.
 
	Eugene