WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Americans have a constitutional right to keep guns in their homes for self-defense, the justices' first major pronouncement on gun control in U.S. history.
My question is why was this ever questioned at all? That's what the second amendment gives us a right to do.
But it also had in the news that, "Mayors Pledge to Uphold Gun Control Laws Despite Supreme Court Ruling." Who are these Mayors and why?
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I agree, finally they get something right. What's amazing is the vote was 5-4. That means that 4 of them disagreed! That also means this came down to one vote. One man decided if we can have our Constitutional right to "keep and bear arms".
The typical argument against it deals with playing with the words and grammer of the amendment:
"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."
The argument is you can only keep and bear arms in the context of having a militia and since we don't have a militia then it doesn't apply to us.
That argument is crap because first of all the mentioning of a milita is not a requirement for having arms but a reason for us having a right to have arms. Secondly even if it was a requirement a militia is literally the ordinary citizens. We literally are the militia. The very definition of a militia is a military force made up of common citizens. So we, being the militia, have a right to keep and bear arms.
Just to throw something else out there it amazes me how so many people get having guns and the consequences of them completely backwards. Studies show that when gun laws are strict or there are gun bans crime is increased as only the criminals have guns. When gun laws are lessened and common law abiding citizens can carry guns crime is actually reduced.
Gun bans and laws only take guns out of the hands of law abiding citizens not from criminals. Criminals by definition do not follow the law and gun laws don't take guns away from them.
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