SCOTUS Second Amendment Ruling is IN!
Despite my recent bout of pessimism regarding the case the SCOTUS blog has the ruling reflecting well on the rights of We the People. Though superficially it would appear they’ve worked very carefully to maintain the status-quo and not shake the current legal standing of any anti-gun law short of an outright ban such as the one in the District of Columbia.
“For the first time in the history of our Republic, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed that the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms was and is an individual right as intended by our Founding Fathers,” McCain said in a statement.
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So John McCain has already latched onto the ruling as a campaign issue. That ought to bring a few of the disenchanted conservatives back to the party though I don’t know if its enough considering the man’s history of excessive moderation.
As for the ramifications the anti-gunners fear it looks like they’re coming to pass as I’d hoped. The National Rifle Association has already put some of those into motion:
“I consider this the opening salvo in a step-by-step process of providing relief for law-abiding Americans everywhere that have been deprived of this freedom,” he said.
LaPierre told Fox News the NRA is filing lawsuits in Chicago, San Francisco and other cities, vowing the organization “will not rest until individuals everywhere have this freedom.”
Interesting that Chicago comes up twice here, likely as they are among not only the highest crime rates but also the more draconian gun laws. So McCain is certainly in a position to take advantage of that even past his statement so far. He could actually follow through, as President, more than the courts did, in recognising what the Second Amendment truly is and was meant to me: The right to defend yourself against threats to your Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness” to especially include a tyrannical government.
As the Supremes have once used the weapons legality litmus of “serves a legitimate military purpose” in 1939 I am looking forward to digging into the full text of this ruling to see how these rulings nearly 70 years apart jibe with each other.