On the other hand, it must also be understood that the citizenry has a right to expect excellent service from the 911 personel and to be disturbed when faced with poor service. If 911 service is too much for anyone to face, they should work elsewhere, period. If a 911 person performs poorly, they need to be retrained, counciled, transferred, or replaced. Inadequate service simply cannot be tolerated, too much is riding on it.

Having read the 1939 Miller vs US opinion as well as an awful lot of constructionist opining by the court ever since, I think America will face a choice, become more vulnerable to the gangs, thugs, murderers and political correctness of allowing “modernizing interpretations” or demand that congress legislate the issue; to deny the supreme court its ability and willingness to rewrite the law of the land.

This country is facing an increasing amount of extremely violent interests that the police have not in the past half century been able to effectively arrest. During that time special interest groups have successfully infringed upon individuals rights of self defence by attacking the gun not the criminal. The courts obviously have little intrest in closing any issue succinctly since no lawyer has it in his blood to litigate himself out of work. I make an exception to Jerry Spence whose tireless work defending the innocent from bad law has given me hope.