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37. Interesting article about it here

But understandably, given the gun violence that has convulsed the country in recent days and weeks, much more is being said than that, much of it imputing a rationale to the seven justices who had, in fact, remained silent. “Have the justices gone gun-shy?” was the irresistible headline in The Atlantic. “Finally, Some Sanity!” proclaimed The Daily News in New York.


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Implicit in a good deal of the commentary is the hope that one or more of the justices who signed on to Justice Scalia’s strained reading of history seven years ago in District of Columbia v. Heller are reacting to the country’s bullet-ridden landscape by showing symptoms of buyer’s remorse. Heller was the 2008 decision that for the first time interpreted the Second Amendment as protecting an individual’s right to “keep and bear arms,” specifically to keep a handgun at home. In addition to Justice Thomas, the others in Justice Scalia’s 5-to-4 majority were Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justices Anthony M. Kennedy and Samuel A. Alito Jr.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/10/opinion/guns-and-thunder-on-the-supreme-courts-right.html?