SCOTUS Decides Gun Rights

SCOTUS Decides Gun Rights

While some of us are dancing in the streets over this ruling, I suggest you step back and look at exactly what’s happening.

Gun rights extended by Supreme Court

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court held Monday that Americans have the right to own a gun for self-defense anywhere they live, advancing a recent trend by the John Roberts-led bench to embrace gun rights.

By a 5-4 vote, the justices cast doubt on handgun bans in the Chicago area, but signaled that some limitations on the Constitution’s “right to keep and bear arms” could survive legal challenges.

Justice Samuel Alito, writing for the court, said that the Second Amendment right “applies equally to the federal government and the states.”


Here’s where we are headed under the current structure of leadership.

Justices John Paul Stevens and Stephen Breyer, joined by Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor, each wrote a dissent. Stevens, in his final day on the bench after more than 34 years, said that unlike the Washington case, Monday’s decision “could prove far more destructive – quite literally – to our nation’s communities and to our constitutional structure.”

See the full opinion  SCOTUS Opinion 08-1521

It should be noted that, in the guns case, the Court says explicitly in Alito’s opinion that it would not reconsider the Slaughterhouse cases, which almost completely deprive the Privileges or Immunities Clause of any constitutional meaning.

The opinion leaves the fate of the Chicago gun ordinance in the hands of the 7th Circuit on remand.

What we have won is a stay of execution, the Chicago gun ban was decided by a 5-4 margin, with one of the dissenting judges being Sotomayor. Sotomayor on her confirmation hearing about the 2nd amendment, and if she thought Americans should be allowed to own firearms. She answered YES, and then becomes a dissenting vote on this major gun rights case.

I ask you real Americans, how long do you think Ginsburg can hang on? How long do you think it will be before Obama appoints a SWING judge? The next appointment will be the deciding factor for our freedom and if we allow Obama to make that choice we better be ready to fight and die for American values because that’s what is going to happen.

America was the last best place on earth, it’s quickly approaching the last place worth fighting for.

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