WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court says Americans have a right to own guns for self-defense and hunting, the justices’ first major pronouncement on gun rights in U.S. history.
The court’s 5-4 ruling strikes down the District of Columbia’s 32-year-old ban on handguns as incompatible with gun rights under the Second Amendment. The decision goes further than even the Bush administration wanted, but probably leaves most firearms laws intact.
The court had not conclusively interpreted the Second Amendment since its ratification in 1791. The amendment reads: “A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.”
So will we see a challenge to the Sullivan Act and the Chicago ban? I have always said the carry concealed license thing was crap and we should be allowed to carry anywhere without a stinking license.
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See, I told yall they would vote conservative today. The next guy on the list might want to reschedule though.
Good News!!!!!! From the heartbreak of yesterday. Say what you want about Bush, but he did appoint good justices, imagine if Gore was elected-(shudder the thought), the justices he would nominate./Just Asking - seoul62.......
Woo hoo!
(Intro music: doodloo, doddloo, doodloo—doooooooo)
Who is the man that would risk his neck
For his brother man?
SCALIA!
Can you dig it?
Who’s the cat that won’t cop out
When there’s danger all about?
SCALIA!
Right On!
They say this cat Scalia is a bad mother....
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You can bet your bottom dollar that the whining liberals will do everything in their power to enhance the BATFags even more than they currently do. BATF is the way it is because our Rulers WANT it that way — to instill fear and apprehension in anyone that handles a weapon.
GREAT NEWS!
I just called my Husband at work and told him just to make his day brighter!
Guess they weren’t looking forward to a “million gun” march.
But can the SCOTUS really have said this?
“It was plainly the understanding in the post-Civil War Congress that the Second Amendment protected an individual right to use arms for self-defense.”
Even I, historical ignoramus that I am, know the writing of the Bill of Rights, as the Constitution, followed the Revolutionary War, but preceded the Civil War by quite some time...
Carl Rowan is spinning in his grave.............
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition!
WHOO HOO!!!!!!!
(....man, we needed this, whew...)
Leni
PHEW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’ll take the win, but 5-4 really sucks.
WHOOOOOHOOOOO!!! Score one for the good guys!!!
We’re taking our rights back one step at a time.