The Supreme Court has just shot down Washington DC’s 30-year gun ban! In striking down the DC ban, considered the strictest in the country, the Court (finally) acknowledges that each American citizen has a Constitutional right to gun ownership. According to Justice Antonin Scalia in the 64-page majority ruling:
“There seems to us no doubt on the basis of both text and history that the Second Amendment conferred an individual right to keep and bear arms [and] This meaning is strongly confirmed by the historical background of the Second Amendment.”
Furthermore,
“We hold that the District’s ban on handgun possession in the home violates the Second Amendment, as does its prohibition against rendering any lawful firearm in the home operable for the purpose of immediate self-defense.”
It doesn’t get any clearer than that! Expect the floodgates to open with legal challenges across the country, as citizens exercise their newly clarified right!
MORE: Complete coverage at Hot Air; American Pundit shows another Obama flip-flop: He was for the ban, before he was against it; Bookworm at Webloggin discusses the Court’s 157 page opinion; Michelle Malkin has commentary and blog highlights, plus an insightful quote from Jim Geraghty at NRO, who says,
“All statements by Barack Obama come with an expiration date.”
Too true!
Tags: DC gun ban, Second Amendment, Supreme Court
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Finally, one for our side.
Annie -
‘Bout time, eh?
- JOS
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