I agree with you about the Second. This in spite of the fact that many people who have guns, shouldn't: not only felons (who may not by law) but the stupid, the careless and the crazy.

I agree with the Ninth Circuit about the Pledge. It of itself is not unconstitutional. Requiring school children to recite a belief that their nation is "under God" violates the First. Adults can abstain. Children don't have that option. They are expected to obey the adults in charge. This sets up a potential conflict between parents who may not believe in God and official persons (in school and elsewhere) who insist on a recitation of a creed-like Pledge by everyone present.

Like it or not, athiest and agnostic families have First Amendment rights too.

Regards--
Mary Anne