Good News on Guns!
Rarely do we at the Rio Grande Foundation discuss the 2nd Amendment or gun rights, but the Supreme Court's decision in District of Columbia v. Heller is a very big deal because it is a clear sign that the Court hasn't completely abandoned attempts to read the document as it is written.
While it is impossible to underestimate the restoration of the right to carry guns in Washington, DC and other jurisdictions that have attempted to write their own laws in defiance of the Constitution, it would be really great if this trend towards Constitutional adherence were applied by the Court to the 9th and 10th amendments.
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Bastiat said, "What, then, is law? It is the collective organization of the individual right to lawful defense."
Guns are the most effective means of self defense. To deny the right to keep and bear arms is to deny the right of self defense and thus negate all law.
Posted by: Bill Koehler | June 29, 2008 06:54 PM