Aw… Poor Guy…
By jimrob | June 26, 2008
Some libby reporter is apparently upset over today’s 2nd Amendment ruling. Poor guy.
Supreme Court finds individual right to own guns | Reuters
Although an individual now has a constitutional right to own guns, that new right is not unlimited, wrote Scalia, a hunter.
We now have a right to own guns? It hasn’t been there all along?
He said the ruling should not be taken to cast doubt on long-standing prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill or on laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in places like schools and government buildings or laws imposing conditions on gun sales.
The Supreme Court’s last review of the Second Amendment came in a five-page discussion in an opinion issued in 1939 that failed to definitively resolve the constitutional issue.
In Thursday’s opinion, the court struck down the country’s strictest gun control law adopted in Washington, D.C., 32 years ago. It bans private possession of handguns and requires that any rifles or shotguns kept at home be unloaded and dissembled or bound by a trigger lock.
FIRST TIME GUN CONTROL LAW STRUCK DOWN
The ruling marked the first time that the Supreme Court has struck down a gun control law for violating the Second Amendment. The ruling could be the beginning of an era in which anti-gun regulations are subject to legal challenges.
The justices split along conservative-liberal lines in the ruling, one of the most important of the court’s current term, in deciding a legal battle over gun rights in America. The ruling came on the last day of the court’s 2007-08 term.
In dissent, Justice Stephen Breyer wrote, “The decision threatens to throw into doubt the constitutionality of gun laws throughout the United States.”
President George W. Bush’s two appointees on the court, Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito, both voted with the majority in finding an individual right to keep firearms.
The court adopted the gun rights position advocated by the Bush administration. White House spokesman Tony Fratto said,
“We’re pleased that the Supreme Court affirmed that the Second Amendment protects the right of Americans to keep and bear arms.”
Republican presidential candidate John McCain applauded the ruling and criticized his likely Democratic opponent Barack Obama for comments he had made.
“Unlike the elitist view that believes Americans cling to guns out of bitterness, today’s ruling recognizes that gun ownership is a fundamental right — sacred, just as the right to free speech and assembly,” McCain said.
Oh my. Justices appointed by the administration agreed with the administration’s opinion on the matter. What a heinous act of non-bipartisanship.
And here comes the bias and propaganda!
The ruling came the day after a worker at a plastics plant in Henderson, Kentucky, used a handgun to shoot and kill five people inside the factory before killing himself, the latest in a series of deadly shooting sprees across the country.
Series? Wtf are you talking about? Is there some big nationwide shooting rampage going on that I’ve not been made aware of? Or are you talking about a long, drawn-out series of events; one with instances spaced farther apart than drunk driving homicides, pool drownings, and other much more common events that legislative action isn’t taken on?
The United States is estimated to have the world’s highest civilian gun ownership rate. Gun deaths average 80 a day in the United States, 34 of them homicides, according to Centers for Disease Control data.
I’m sure the people in Rwanda feel much safer, having been disarmed by their government. I’m sure their country is much more peaceful and stable as well.
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