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Editorial: Second Amendment is worth fighting for
Josey1
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Editorial: Second Amendment is worth fighting for
Supreme Court misses opportunity
Supreme Court justices sidestepped the Second Amendment last week, missing a golden opportunity to back the Bush administration's newly articulated position that the U.S. Constitution protects an individual's right to own guns.
For decades, the High Court interpreted the amendment as pertaining to a collective group, such as a state's militia, instead of individuals. Justices turned down two cases without comment.
The cases involved two men convicted of violating federal gun laws. They said the laws were unconstitutional because the Second Amendment allows Americans the right to "keep and bear arms." The administration had wanted the justices to act as they did because it also believes the Second Amendment right is subject to "reasonable restrictions."
"The current position of the United States ... is that the Second Amendment more broadly protects the rights of individuals, including persons who are not members of any militia or engaged in active military service or training, to possess and bear their own firearms," Solicitor General Theodore Olson wrote in footnotes.
It's time justices take the next step and give individuals their constitutional right to bear arms.
http://www.amarillonet.com/stories/061702/opi_isworth.shtml
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
Supreme Court misses opportunity
Supreme Court justices sidestepped the Second Amendment last week, missing a golden opportunity to back the Bush administration's newly articulated position that the U.S. Constitution protects an individual's right to own guns.
For decades, the High Court interpreted the amendment as pertaining to a collective group, such as a state's militia, instead of individuals. Justices turned down two cases without comment.
The cases involved two men convicted of violating federal gun laws. They said the laws were unconstitutional because the Second Amendment allows Americans the right to "keep and bear arms." The administration had wanted the justices to act as they did because it also believes the Second Amendment right is subject to "reasonable restrictions."
"The current position of the United States ... is that the Second Amendment more broadly protects the rights of individuals, including persons who are not members of any militia or engaged in active military service or training, to possess and bear their own firearms," Solicitor General Theodore Olson wrote in footnotes.
It's time justices take the next step and give individuals their constitutional right to bear arms.
http://www.amarillonet.com/stories/061702/opi_isworth.shtml
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878