Re: Cindy Evans, this Speaker did what every other Speaker would have, at least where the Majority Leader had just been appointed, and whose ability to line up votes and deliver them had not yet been tested. I praise Evans for voting with her conscience, but that is not the Majority Leader's job. It might be otherwise if we had a two party system in Hawaii but under the current state of affairs, dissenters are freely expendable and the GOP has given us no reason to change that.

Re: the Second Amendment, cite all the history you want, and there is plenty, but the final word on the issue has been given by the Supreme Court, and that is that the right to bear arms is an individual right, not a collective one. The question now is whether and to what extent it may be limited. Despite Steve Scalise's opinion that there are no limits, the Court has said otherwise and we are waiting to see what limits are permissible, especially as it relates to concealed/open carry outside the home.