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The gun-rights fight isn’t over

Posted by Charlie Kilo on June 28th, 2008

Victory?

Leading gun-control advocates, such as the Brady Center, are already spinning Heller as a victory: They claim the gun-rights lobby’s strength is based on stoking the public’s slippery-slope fears that any gun regulation is a forerunner to a total ban. With that ban now impossible, gun-control advocates believe they’ll have more ability to restrict sales, possession and carrying in ways short of prohibition.

Supreme Court says Americans have right to own guns

Posted by Charlie Kilo on June 26th, 2008

I publicly want to thank the Supreme Court for giving me the right to bear arms - a right I have actually been afforded by the Constitution since the second amendment was ratified in 1791:

The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Americans have a right to own guns for self-defense in their homes, the justices’ first major pronouncement on gun rights in U.S. history.

The court’s 5-4 ruling struck down the District of Columbia’s 32-year-old ban on handguns as incompatible with gun rights under the Second Amendment.

And get this line:

The decision went further than even the Bush administration wanted, but probably leaves most firearms restrictions intact.

Translation: Even the right wing freaks in the Bush administration think this went too far. At least we still have most of the other unconstitutional gun laws on the books!

I would look at this ruling as a win in the battle but certainly not the end of the war.

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