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Majority. and said found that the second amendment guarantees an individual right to possess firearms unconnected to serve in a state militia. until the composition of the supreme court changes and the heller decision is overturned, nothing big can be done about guns. theore theoretically, we could repeal and replace the second amendment, but that requires a two-thirds vote of both houses of congress or for a convention called for by two-thirds of the state, and then it has to be ratified by two-thirds the state or conventions. that's not happening. the last time was 1992, it was the 27th amen...

Until they get further guidance from the courts. that happens all the time. that happened after the heller case in 2008 when the supreme court said there is a right to keep arms. and we had to figure out what that meant. we ended up back in court on the bruin case 14 years later, in which we get a little more definition on keep and bear. but now we are seeking guidance on sensitive areas. this is a sort of cycle we kind ourselves in when the supreme court rules on one thing, and then opens up several other issues for a debate. >> let me bring in the former director of counterintelligence at th...

Generally speaking, what the supreme court said in the heller case in 2008 was that individuals have a right to bear arms but in the home. as you might expect in our very diverse country, a number of states, most states, said that when a citizen asks for a permit to carry outside the home, the state and local authorities shall issue it. in seven states, including -- the legislature said they shall issue it upon a showing of proper cause. what the supreme court has said today is that that proper cause standard, applicable in the seventh state is too burdensome, infringes upon the second amendme...

Conversation? >> yes. i have a lot of faith in chris and i personally had dinner with about five or six of them and talked about this for three hours last night. so i believe there is some movement and they're interested in moving ahead. but again, it is going to be, i hope, a combination of different things. because we know that not every shooting is the same. not every motivation is the same. but we have just stood back and done nothing and i thought joe's point about the supreme court and the heller case was a good one. basically they opened the door for congress doing something about this....

District of columbia within their home. there is a "new york times" opinion piece today from two of the clerks on that decision, the majority scalia and the minority stevens, the dissenting opinion. they write that lawmakers are reading this case wrong, that scalia didn't say that you can't regulate firearms, that there wasn't a role for congress to play in this. will you explain this to us, adam. >> sure. the supreme court in the heller case did say there was an individual right to bare arms protected by the second amendment but many judges and advocates out there especially in the nra and gu...