Supreme Court Makes Correct Decision on Handguns
Guest blogger Richard B. Stemmer, Jr.
While William Standring is obviously smarting from Thursday's Supreme Court ruling, I, on the other hand, am enjoying a guarded optimism about it.
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In 1931, the Supreme Court concluded that the Fourteenth Amendment’s due process clause applied to the states the First Amendment’s ban on free press prohibitions, a stricture that had until then applied only to Congress.
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Understanding the Second Amendment
If in District of Columbia v. Heller, the gun control case, the United States Supreme Court concluded that D.C. cannot ban handguns, it did not say that gun control was unconstitutional. Not even unconstitutional in the District, the only jurisdiction in which Heller, for now, applies.
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The Heart of the Case
To grasp aright the Supreme Court’s ruling in District of Columbia v. Heller, the gun control case, you have to know a few of things about the Second Amendment.
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The Opening Shot
At the heart of the gun control dispute the Supreme Court settled in District of Columbia v. Heller was the meaning of twenty-seven words, three commas, and a period: “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.”
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The Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision that the District of Columbia’s ban on handguns violates the Second Amendment is but the opening shot in a long, and likely to be inconclusive, war of litigation between gun control opponents and advocates.
