Individual Right to Bear Arms Affirmed
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It was a very good day for the individual American Citizen, as the US Supreme Court issued its landmark, history-making ruling on the Second Amendment in the Bill of Rights. The NRA's website reports that its Executive Vice President, Wayne LaPierre declared,
“This is a great moment in American history. It vindicates individual Americans all over this country who have always known that this is their freedom worth protecting. Our founding fathers wrote and intended the Second Amendment to be an individual right. The Supreme Court has now acknowledged it. The Second Amendment as an individual right now becomes a real permanent part of American Constitutional law.”
Last year, the District of Columbia appealed a Court of Appeals ruling affirming that the Second Amendment to the Constitution guarantees an individual right to keep and bear arms, and that the District’s bans on handguns, carrying firearms within the home and possession of functional firearms for self-defense violate that fundamental right.
“Anti-gun politicians can no longer deny that the Second Amendment guarantees a fundamental right,” said NRA chief lobbyist Chris W. Cox. “All law-abiding Americans have a fundamental, God-given right to defend themselves in their homes. Washington, D.C. must now respect that right.”
Click here to visit the NRA homepage, and here to get to the link to download the entire ruling as released by the Supreme Court today. This is great news! Now I can carry even when outside New Hampshire! I can get to RI, through MASSACHUSETTS, even, without having to disarm. Hmmm. I wonder what we ought to do this weekend?
CELEBRATE? You bet...
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