The Supreme Court Recognizes an Individual right
So for the first time, the SCOTUS determined that the Second Amendment revolves around an individual freedom, and not a regulated militia per say. The language of the Amendment has been a source of dispute because it has been seen as vague, giving the liberal view something to point to as something other as an individual right, something that is self evident.
The ruling may have to do with guns, but the heart of the matter is one of self defense, pure and simple. Guns happen to be the state of the art. If the issue was presented a thousand years ago, the state of the art would be swords or the like.
Whether the tool for self defense is a gun, a bow and arrow, a box cutter, or a stone hand axe, the right of the individual to protect himself is absolute and is not subject to the speculation of a few judges.
Every creature on the planet has a tool for self defense. A bear has claws and teeth, as do cats, dogs, etc. Birds can escape by flight, although some have formidable beaks and talons. Some have camouflage. Man has his brain to utilize a stick or rock, or a shotgun. Or, on a larger scale, an aircraft carrier.
No matter the tool, a person has the right, just as any other creature, to defend hearth, person and home. And by the way, he also has the right to defend himself against a government, to which he has granted limited powers, that would usurp his individual rights. Hence the "well regulated militia".
Four members of the supreme Court voted to give more power to the government, a la King George, than keep it with the individual. They voted to return to a totalitarian state and suppress the freedom of the individual. You might say we dodged a bullet.
The ruling may have to do with guns, but the heart of the matter is one of self defense, pure and simple. Guns happen to be the state of the art. If the issue was presented a thousand years ago, the state of the art would be swords or the like.
Whether the tool for self defense is a gun, a bow and arrow, a box cutter, or a stone hand axe, the right of the individual to protect himself is absolute and is not subject to the speculation of a few judges.
Every creature on the planet has a tool for self defense. A bear has claws and teeth, as do cats, dogs, etc. Birds can escape by flight, although some have formidable beaks and talons. Some have camouflage. Man has his brain to utilize a stick or rock, or a shotgun. Or, on a larger scale, an aircraft carrier.
No matter the tool, a person has the right, just as any other creature, to defend hearth, person and home. And by the way, he also has the right to defend himself against a government, to which he has granted limited powers, that would usurp his individual rights. Hence the "well regulated militia".
Four members of the supreme Court voted to give more power to the government, a la King George, than keep it with the individual. They voted to return to a totalitarian state and suppress the freedom of the individual. You might say we dodged a bullet.
posted by Freeman Livingood at 2:59:00 PM
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