Turley: I was guilty of 216 years of ignorance.

A liberal owning up to his civic ambivalence, and warming up to the inconvenient right to arms.
Of course, now that the entire nation potentially faces sweeping gun ban reversals, Turley admits that "the NRA may have been right."

For more than 200 years, progressives and polite people have avoided acknowledging that following the rights of free speech, free exercise of religion and free assembly, there is "the right of the people to keep and bear arms." Of course, the very idea of finding a new individual right after more than two centuries is like discovering an eighth continent in constitutional law...

Considering the Framers and their own traditions of hunting and self-defense, it is clear that they would have viewed such ownership as an individual right — consistent with the plain meaning of the amendment.

Better late than never.