At last the supreme court is challenging the right to bear arms of citizens. This has been long overdue and needs to get attention.Original reasons for carrying arms have changed since the old west and changes needed.What do you think the outcome will be?
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Honestly, without adding any opinion into this answer mind you... I do not think it will be changed. It is one of the basic freedoms written out in the constitution.
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Actually, the Court is hearing a case on the firearm ban in Washington DC. The case challenges the right of the City to ban firearms
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If Guns are outlawed only outlaws will have guns.....M.C.S.
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I hope it will uphold it. I do not disagree with you as far as the historical context, but that right is still in the constitution, and there is a due process in place to change it. If it is the country's desire to remove that as a protected right, they need to go through the steps to pass a constitutional amendment to change it. A minor point - the Supreme Court is not challenging the right, they are hearing a case on it. The District of Columbia is challenging the right because they passed a law that restricts that right.
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It is difficult to predict what this court will do. Nominally, the court is "conservative", but since the Reagan administration, the court's "conservatism" has included a great deal of deference to government and corporate power (except in cases where such power might be used to promote social justice, e.g. affirmative action). This case pits the 'conservative' position that firearm ownership should be minimally regulated with the 'conservative' position of deference to the government body involved. Historically, the courts have ruled that the 2nd Amendment grants a collective right, rather than individual right, but this court may be seeking to change that. We shall see...
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The Court is considereing the gun ban in place in Wash.D.C. Is it unconstitutional? I suspect they will let it stand. Amendment II A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed. The way I read it, ANY gun restrictions on law abiding citizens are unconstitutional. The 2nd. Ammendment assumes a birthright to 'Keep and Bear' and simply says that that right will not be violated. Before there was such a thing as the National Guard, Militias were formed of armed citizens. Therein lies the argument. Militias are no longer needed, so they want to take away the peoples right to own guns. Why? What is it that 'they' want to do that 'they' would feel safer doing if we didn't have guns???? I don't want to find out. As long as that guy on the 6:00 PM news that held up the 7-11 has his gun, I want to keep mine. If the law says I have to give mine up, I will have to, but he won't he doesn't care about the law. It is already against the law to rob stores and shoot people but he(or someone like him) will do it everyday.
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Why is it that you think when they "ban" guns it will all go away? The only people who won't have guns legally will be the good citizens. Look at this, they banned drugs but we still have them. Imagine if they ban guns. Only drug dealers etc would have them and the citizens would be at their mercy.
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I am for the 2nd Amendment and I fought a war to protect it and the Constitution. If we allow the current government to begin removing the Constitutional Amendments and the rights that they have for all US citizens, then what is next. Today it is the guns, because people kill people with guns. Then tomorrow we lose our cars, because people kill people with cars! FYI – It would be easier for the government to take away our “privilege” to drive cars than out Constitutional Right to bear arms under the 2nd Amendment. Just because you own a car does not give you the “right” to drive it on public roads. Driving a vehicle, an any of the 50 states is still a “privilege” from which the government can take away any time it deems it necessary. The Constitution of The United States provides Rights for all citizens of the United States, and those constitutional rights cannot be taken away without a vote from the citizens of the United States. Everything else we have in this county can be taken away in a heartbeat by the “government”. Think on that.
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