The Supreme Court Rules Narrowly In Favor Of The Second Amendment
Quite frankly, it’s a little too narrow for my liking. But it’s still good news.
The Supreme Court ruled for the first time Monday that the Second Amendment provides all Americans a fundamental right to bear arms, a long-sought victory for gun rights advocates who have chafed at federal, state and local efforts to restrict gun ownership.
The court was considering a restrictive handgun law in Chicago and one of its suburbs that was similar to the District law that it ruled against in 2008. The 5 to 4 decision does not strike any other gun control measures currently in place, but it provides a legal basis for challenges across the country where gun owners think that government has been too restrictive.
“It is clear that the Framers . . . counted the right to keep and bear arms among those fundamental rights necessary to our system of ordered liberty,” Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. wrote for the conservatives on the court.
June 28th, 2010 at 11:09 pm
It was Jefferson, I believe, who said that an armed citizenry was necessary to keep the government at bay.
And with the administration we have today, it has never been more true.
I can hardly wait for Duh-1 to set up his “civilian police force” that is “as well armed as the military.” That will be quite a show!
Hitler didn’t have the same problem because personal firearm ownership wasn’t allowed in Germany then without special permit, so his brown shirts didn’t have to worry about people shooting back at them.
Wait until Obama’s brownshirts (or green, or whatever) start busting down doors where the folks don’t appreciate it.