WE get to keep our guns-YEE HAA

[Kenneth Brown]

The Department of Justice says the Second Amendment's right to bear arms is an individual, not a collective, right.<br /><br />In an opinion written in August and titled "Memorandum Opinion for the Attorney General," the department released its findings on the Internet last week.<br /><br />The opinion examines the question, "Whether the Second Amendment Secures an Individual Right." The 103-page report comes with 437 footnotes and concludes definitively "the Second Amendment secures a personal right of individuals, not a collective right that may only be invoked by a State or a quasi-collective right restricted to those persons who serve in organized militia units."<br /><br />Some anti-gun groups had argued the right was a collective right reserved to states and state-run militia organizations, not to individuals.<br /><br />That latter opinion was also suggested by the Clinton administration's Justice Department, but was never enshrined in policy.<br /><br />According to the report's authors, their conclusions are based "on the Amendment's text, as commonly understood at the time of its adoption and interpreted in light of other provisions of the Constitution and the Amendment's historical antecedents."<br /><br />The report did not examine the "substance" of an individual's right to own and carry firearms, nor did it consider the legitimacy of government attempts to limit the right, CNSNews.com reported.<br /><br />Gun rights groups applauded the opinion but said until it was applied in court rulings to overturn some gun restrictions, it would not be enough to restore complete constitutionality regarding the issue.<br /><br />"It changes the courts' view of the issue, and it applies a stricter standard of scrutiny as to whether or not a given law does infringe on an individual's constitutional rights," Joe Waldron, executive of Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, told the news service. <br /><br />"They have to look at it from a civil rights perspective now instead of just [whether] the individual violated a given law," he said.

 

[Stratosfied]

Re: WE get to keep our guns-YEE HAA

The Bill Of Rights to the Constitution of The United States of America, will AWLAYS, give the rights to the individuals. Why, why why must courts, judges, or who ever, not realize this.

 

[kenimpzoom]

Re: WE get to keep our guns-YEE HAA

This is truly good news. Belongs in GNN.<br /><br />Ken

 

[DJ]

Re: WE get to keep our guns-YEE HAA

The Bill Of Rights to the Constitution of The United States of America, will AWLAYS, give the rights to the individuals. Why, why why must courts, judges, or who ever, not realize this.<br />

Because, many in power want to make it difficult for anyone to question that power.

 

[LubeDude]

Re: WE get to keep our guns-YEE HAA

Like they would "EVER" be able to collect guns from us anyway, even if they wanted too!! Who in there right mind would sign up to be a gun confiscater??? It would be a suicide job.

 

[Butch Ammon]

Re: WE get to keep our guns-YEE HAA

LubeDude...<br /><br />"Lurch" Kerry, Diane Feinstein, Chuck Schumer, The Hilde-beast, and all the other members of the Brady Bill don't want ANYONE to have firearms.<br /><br />I am so glad the Justice Dept declared it an Individual right! <br /><br />Butch A.

 

[kd6nem]

Re: WE get to keep our guns-YEE HAA

I wish we could just get our "Governator" Ahhhnold to lead a charge in Sacramento to ditto the obvious. But if we ever succeed in what has become Twinkieville it will be because one struggle after another was fought hard in the trenches.<br />Pity. My family has been here longer than most (~110 years), but I keep thinking I'll have to leave this state of insanity. Only to follow all the other disenchanted expatriate Californians as they drive up the price of real-estate every where else we go. <br /><br />However it truly is a good thing that the Feds finally called it right. Maybe there is just a tiny bit of hope that our gun rights here will not erode much further.