Sure. So, is Chicago's assault weapon ban unconstitutional in your opinion? What about limiting where you can have a gun like some states have laws for (only at home or place of business)? And if like say certain closed communities didn't want firearms in the vicinity of their community would...
Again.
In California, municipalities are able to ban guns even though the state itself is unable to ban guns. It depends on the state. The state doesn't ban guns but following the Incorporation Doctrine it does prohibit slavery and doesn't allow municipalities to circumvent that prohibition...
It's a punishment.
Not saying they all are but many of them are.
If life imprisonment where to entail true punishment like not extending them any privileges and feeding them the loaf for the rest of their lives, then I would consider it to be a suitable punishment. But some people are just no...
Nah, they were collectively experiencing a totemic meme as a emancipatory community of believers. Happens in many cultures after they survive a traumatic event.
And the court follows that rule at it's own discretion. To quote:
Whether it shall be followed or departed from is a question entirely within the discretion of the court,
Violence is violence. If you are going to protect one class of prisoner from it, then all things being equal you should protect all prisoners from violence
To quote SCOTUS:
The doctrine of stare decisis does not require us to approve routine constitutional violations.
Sometimes the court has to depart from precedence in order to uphold Constitutional principles, it is not violating the Constitution to do so.