The Brady Center and Heller  The Brady Center to Prevent Gun
Violence's Dennis Henigan has written a very interesting
response to Robert Levy's Cato Unbound essay on the future of
gun rights after D.C. v. Heller. Essentially, Henigan argues
that the Court's conservatives have mangled the Constitution in
order to reach a preferred outcome that will have little real
world impact:   While it certainly makes rhetorical sense for
Henigan to downplay the victory (and link it to criminals and
their shady attorneys), it's not at all clear that the lower
courts will see (or will continue to see) things his way. As
David Kopel noted in reason after Heller came down, "Rome was
not built in a day, and neither is constitutional doctrine."
For most of our nation's history, the U.S. Supreme Court did
nothing to protect the First Amendment; it was not until the
1930s when a majority of the Court took the first steps towards
protecting freedom of the press. It would have been preposterous
to be disappointed that a Court in,