# The Peaceful Second Amendment Revolution

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/the-peaceful-second-amendment-revolution/
- Published: 2026-11-10T23:52:45+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-11T00:22:27+00:00
- Original publisher: Reason (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://reason.com/volokh/2026/11/10/the-peaceful-second-amendment-revolution/
- Topics: Politics

## Key points

- The speech describes a gradual revival of the Second Amendment.
- It credits lawyers, scholarship, elections and public support.
- The Supreme Court rulings came in 2008 and 2010.

## Summary

A speech delivered at the University of Wyoming in October 2026 argues that the Second Amendment’s revival was a gradual, peaceful change in law and public understanding. It says the Supreme Court’s decisions recognising an individual right to keep and bear arms followed decades of political activity, historical research and public support.

The speech contrasts this revival with what it describes as the right’s near-erasure in the late twentieth century. It notes that nineteenth-century commentators and courts generally treated the right as an individual one, citing legal writers St George Tucker, William Rawle and Joseph Story. The Supreme Court rulings in *District of Columbia v. Heller* (2008) and *McDonald v. Chicago* (2010) are presented as lagging indicators of that longer shift.

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