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Umm... Very specifically, I would think.

Let's add one more to the list.

5) Pass a Constitutional amendment that overturns D.C. vs Heller and McDonald vs Chicago. Or pass legislation that blunts them considerably.

The Heller and McDonald cases have become to the left what Roe vs Wade became to the right. Think they can't be overturned? Line the Supreme Court with enough partisans and you can take away or grant any right you want.

The Supreme Court isn't getting any younger. Obama will be in office for another four years. One or perhaps two conservative justices likely will retire during that time. Then Obama picks replacements.

Beyond Obama's tenure, the same voter demographics that got Obama reelected in mid-recession will be even more pronounced in 2016. The Dems don't even need to address gun control at all All they have to do is keep quiet on the issue while simultaneously ensuring conservatives become the new minority on the Supreme Court.



The Supreme Court reversed itself no fewer than six times in the 20th century. That's an average of once every 16.6 years. One similarity among these overturned cases: they were extremely contentious issues with enormous social and political implications.

You're right that it's not typical. But it's not unheard of either. If a sizable swatch of the public gets behind the idea, or even supports candidates (based on other issues) who are unopposed to it, then it's a plausible scenario.

So how would a large swatch of the public ever get behind the idea?

Imagine the public reaction if we have a mass shooting incident like Newtown or Virginia Tech every five or six months. Pair that with years of NRA public relations campaigns that have persuaded the same public that background checks, waiting periods, ammunition capacity limits, psychological evaluations, and assault weapon bans aren't working. 

If mass shoot-and-kill incidents become both persistent and intolerable in the public perception, does that open the door for a political movement to end gun ownership as a constitutional right?  Would it help or hinder that the NRA itself has laid bedrock for its opponents to argue that nothing else can possibly work? 

Improbable, maybe. But not impossible.










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