Mike Cox, the attorney general for the state of Michigan, makes the argument on behalf of the proposition that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to bear arms. Really, the number and cogency of arguments in favor of this proposition are overwhelming in nature and substance. How the Supreme Court could possibly find otherwise is beyond me.

Maybe by writing that, I am setting myself up for a disappointment. I certainly hope not, but I am confident that the individual rights proponents have the better of this argument.

The only thing that gives me pause, of course, is that I have absolutely no idea what Justice Kennedy might think. Will he call upon the residue of his originalist jurisprudence to agree with my position or will he simply cite some international law case to find otherwise? The betting in Vegas ought to be hot and heavy regarding this issue.