U. S. Supreme Court takes the teeth out of the Second Amendment
Back in June of 2008 many Constitutionalists and pro Second Amendment advocates hailed the Supreme Court ruling of D.C. vs Heller.
The general public was told this landmark Second Amendment decision was a victory for gun owners declaring for the first time the right to bear arms was not just a states right but the right of individual U.S. citizens. Looked like a victory? But it wasn’t. In fact it is the biggest backdoor anti-gun ruling in American history.
At the end of the ruling can be found the Devil in the details:
The Supreme Court wrote that “nothing in our opinion should be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or laws imposing conditions on the commercial sale of arms.”
This language from the Supreme Court has and will continue to allow lower courts to find in favor of nearly ever anti-gun law measure on the books.
The anti-liberty groups are already celebrationg their victory over freedom you can read an article published today in The Huffington Post by Adam Winkler called, The New Second Amendment: A Bark Worse Than Its Bite.
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