Dumb America just “dumbing”

Just have a look at this decision by the US Supreme Court…
"THE UNITED States supreme court has overturned a ban on handguns in Washington DC declaring that the American constitution guarantees an individual’s right to bear arms.
In the first major ruling on gun rights in the court’s history, a 5-4 majority said the second amendment to the constitution allows Americans to own guns for self-defence and hunting.
The ruling could doom similar gun bans in cities such as Chicago and San Francisco but the court made clear that guns can still be banned from sensitive areas such as schools, churches and government buildings and kept out of the hands of criminals.
In his majority opinion, Justice Antonin Scalia said some restrictions had to be permitted to combat gun crime, including some measures regulating handguns. "But the enshrinement of constitutional rights necessarily takes certain policy choices off the table. These include the absolute prohibition of handguns held and used for self-defence in the home," Mr Scalia said."
With all the violence that country has experienced in the last 50 years you’d think the local governments could bring in enforcement of a peaceful act to protect the many decent law-abiding citizens. But "no". It isn’t allowed by the Constitution.
AND I ABSOLUTELY AGREE WITH THE DECISION.
The court had no choice. And the Constitution is the most sacred thing we the people have to protect us from villainous governments. HOWEVER….
The Constitution was created for another time and place and some of the Amendments such as the one allowing people to carry guns to defend themselves is inane today and has no place in a civilised country. In those archaic times citizens were mostly in a lawless world where often there would be no help available in times of need and that could include being attacked by a grizzly bear, a cougar or "injuns" as much as as murderous marauders and thieves.
What I fail to understand is that the Supreme Court did not say there was a need for the Second Amendment to be amended. so that they could rule as undoubtedly any sensible court would wish to support local governments desperately struggling against a tide of repugnant gun violence in a country that is now simply out of control.
It’s just dumb.


