Second Amendment Rights to Armed Defense Upheld

What a great day for our side - this case, for the right to own a fire arm for our personal protection, was originally intended, as our forefathers understood 250 years ago, to prevent a government, not representative of the people, from taking away the basic rights of the people to determine their own destiny. The founding fathers came from such an repressive environment.

With a fire arm in every home, it becomes much more difficult for those in power to force the population into uncompromising positions. That is, a total loss of individual rights and freedoms. Under such conditions, an armed population can rise up against the repressive government.

The most basic fundamental principle of the Marxist socialist agenda is to disarm the population mentally and physically.

It surly doesn't take rocket science to see and understand why the liberal Marxist Democrats, and the 'anti-gun lobby', have the same goal in mind when they demand total gun control and ultimately gun confiscation. An unarmed population is much easier to control.

The Heritage Foundation presents a good basic narrative on how important this decisions is to the future of our country.

Keep the faith, the battle is progressing.

Second Amendment victory

In a landmark decision released Thursday, the Supreme Court upheld the individual right to bear arms by striking down the District of Columbia’s onerous prohibition on handguns and its strict controls on long guns.


“The U.S. Supreme Court held that the right to keep and bear arms, recognized in the Second Amendment, is an individual right of all Americans unconnected with service in a militia,” explains Todd Gaziano, director of The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Legal and Judicial Studies. “Americans may use arms like handguns for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home.”

Writing on Human Events online, Heritage legal scholar Andrew Grossman says Justice Scalia’s majority opinion in the case, District of Columbia v. Heller, “decimates the gun control crowd’s contention that the Second Amendment guarantees only a collective right, having to do with states’ militias, making it all but irrelevant in the modern age.”

» Read the decision in PDF format.

Heritage has been an effective advocate for a common-sense understanding of the Second Amendment. When Heller came before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, Heritage legal scholars helped the winning side prepare its arguments.