Answering a 127-year old constitutional question, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to have a gun, at least in one’s home. The Court, splitting 5-4, struck down a District of Columbia ban on handgun possession.
Justice Antonin Scalia’s opinion for the majority stressed that the Court was not casting doubt on long-standing bans on gun possession by felons or the mentally retarded, or laws barring guns from schools or government buildings, or laws putting conditions on gun sales.
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They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. --Benjemin Franklin
A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity. -- Sigmund Freud
TO vote for the lesser of two evils , is to still vote for evil.
Opinion of the Court
In sum, 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 fire-
arm in the home operable for the purpose of immediate
self-defense. Assuming that Heller is not disqualified
from the exercise of Second Amendment rights, the Dis-
trict must permit him to register his handgun and must
issue him a license to carry it in the home.
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We are aware of the problem of handgun violence in this
country, and we take seriously the concerns raised by the
many amici who believe that prohibition of handgun
ownership is a solution. The Constitution leaves the
District of Columbia a variety of tools for combating that
problem, including some measures regulating handguns,
see supra, at 54–55, and n. 26. But the enshrinement of
constitutional rights necessarily takes certain policy
choices off the table. These include the absolute prohibi-
tion of handguns held and used for self-defense in the
home. Undoubtedly some think that the Second Amend-
ment is outmoded in a society where our standing army is
the pride of our Nation, where well-trained police forces
provide personal security, and where gun violence is a
serious problem. That is perhaps debatable, but what is
not debatable is that it is not the role of this Court to
pronounce the Second Amendment extinct.
We affirm the judgment of the Court of Appeals.
Diane Fuckstein has agrued that the 2nd Amendment to the Constitiution only protects the right to bear arms to a militia. Fuck Diane Fuckstein in her face
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OMG , read this decision , it might well open the floodgates on automatic weapons as it specifically talks about guns that were not in existence when the amendment was passed. Time will tell on this ruling , but it appears very broad to me.
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MOLON LABE !!!!!
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. --Benjemin Franklin
A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity. -- Sigmund Freud
TO vote for the lesser of two evils , is to still vote for evil.
The U.S. Supreme Court has overturned the Washington D.C. ban on handguns
Now I'll sit back and watch the Liberals wallow in their shit. Hold on, here we go... weeeee
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