Posted on 01/23/2017 1:06:59 PM PST by Kaslin
Eisenhower sent the 101st Airborne to Little Rock to integrate the public schools there. States have no right to deprive citizens of their constitutional rights. The decisions of late wrt guns indicates a turn against the anti-gunners of dramatic consequence.
The second amendment does not mean that laws wrt firearms cannot be written and passed by the states and still be constitutional, they just cannot deprive the citizenry as a whole (or substantial portions) of the right to possess arms.
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