Mark Cuban’s Second Amendment Air Ball

[Elderberry]

Townhall by Larry Keane 5/30/2019

Mark Cuban might be a billionaire entrepreneur, NBA team owner and celebrity investor with a television show. But a constitutional scholar, he’s not.

It’s time to call foul on Cuban’s latest foray into the gun rights debate. He offered to “update” the Second Amendment. What he really offered was to lower the hoop to six feet so gun controllers could finally dunk. Cuban’s proposed changes include:

    Every American has the right to own a gun.

    The federal government can’t seize your guns.

    States reserve the right to “manage” guns, including purchase, ownership and management – whatever that means.

That’s not an update to the Second Amendment. That’s a wholesale dismantling of an essential American right to keep and bear arms. The Second Amendment expressly protects the pre-existing individual rights of all Americans to keep and bear arms. Those rights – yes, two rights - don’t end at a state’s borders. Cuban’s ideas, though, aren’t surprising given his history of appeasement toward gun control demands.

Cuban’s Scorecard

Cuban’s backed White House candidates who expressly campaigned on gun control platforms. Cuban said in 2016 he wanted to see fellow billionaire and anti-gun New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg run for the presidential nomination.

More: https://townhall.com/columnists/larrykeane/2019/05/30/mark-cubans-second-amendment-air-ball-n2547099

[Jazzhead]

Better to codify the individual gun right than to have it taken away by a future SCOTUS majority.     What Cuban proposes isn't that dissimilar to the Scalia's Heller opinion, which both found an individual RKBA in the Constitution and acknowledged that such right could be reasonably regulated by the States.    (You know, @Hoodat,  just like you insist the States have the right to formulate their own rules regarding abortion.)