SECOND AMENDMENT SISTERS FILES BRIEF IN SUPPORT OF SILVEIRA

Second Amendment Sisters ^ | August 8, 2004 | Maria Heil, National Press Coordinator

[pro2A Mom]

Friend of the Court Brief filed in United States Supreme Court

Contact: Maria Heil of Second Amendment Sisters, 877-797-4857 (press only) or email: press@2asisters.org

AUSTIN, TX-August 8, 2003-A friend of the Court brief has been filed by the nation’s leading pro-self-defense women’s organization, Second Amendment Sisters, Inc.(SAS)

In July, a Petition for Writ of Certiorari was filed in the United States Supreme Court in the case of Silveira, et al. vs. Lockyer, et al. This week, Second Amendment Sisters filed an Amicus Curiae (or Friend of the Court) brief supporting the Petitioners and citing reasons for the Supreme Court to grant a review of the case to Petitioners. The brief supports reversing the ruling of the Ninth Circuit, which found that the right to keep and bear arms is a collective right, reserved only for police and state militias.

Second Amendment Sisters embraces the concept that the right to keep and bear arms, as recognized by the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution, is an individual, and not a collective right.

SAS, whose motto is “Self Defense is a Basic Human Right”™, decries the proposition that women should be victims as a result of biology. Armed women have defended themselves and their families for over 200 years in the history of this country. That right did not simply vanish with the American frontier.

Laws that restrict access to defensive weapons are elitist in nature, inasmuch as the wealthy have the means to provide security measures for themselves and their families that middle class and poor women do not. “The people” in the Second Amendment does not refer only to a privileged class, but to all Americans.

The Supreme Court should rule that the right to own and carry arms for self-defense is an individual right, even predating the Constitution, and recognized as an inalienable right by the Second Amendment. That interpretation provides women with the ability and power to defend themselves and their loved ones against rape, assault, and other violent crimes by the physically stronger sex. Any decision that rejects the individual rights interpretation of the Second Amendment is a decision that discriminates against women, and in many jurisdictions effectively relegates them to the status of home detention prisoners or chattel under the protectorate of men.

FAST FACT-(Source-“Gun Facts” version 3.1 by Guy Smith)
-The Second Amendment was listed in a Supreme Court ruling as an individual right. (Dred Scott, Casey v. Planned Parenthood, U.S. V. Cruikshank and others)

[Taxman]

SASSY BUMP!

[Atlas Sneezed]

Is there a copy of the brief available for review?

[PistolPaknMama]

We do not have the brief on our site yet, but anyone can FReepmail me with your email address or send a request to dsawyer@2asisters.org and I will be happy to email you the brief in pdf format.

kaboom!

[basil]

I'm so excited! I'm the one who gets all the mail sent to SAS, and when a new lifetime membership comes in, I let out another war whoop--(It's driving my husband crazy--LOL)

Thanks for your confidence in us. There are no words to fully express how much this means to us.

Hopefully, you will find a way to join us at the next match-up in May.

Mari

[PistolPaknMama]

SAS bump!

[pasaster]

Whahooo! Go SASters!

[pasaster]

Thank you for posting this - although I arrived to the party a little late... this will be some interesting reading I'm sure.

[Saundra Duffy]

Bump from CA Central Valley SAS! Yahoo!

[Saundra Duffy]

Thank God for Second Amendment Sisters!

Amen!

[technochick99]

FMCDNPH" from my cold dead nail polished hands...

Cute!

[Ancesthntr]

Does anyone know when the USSC will decide to give cert or not?

[pro2A Mom]

Thanks for the bump!

[Badray]

" Will I be seeing you at GRPC this year?"

***** This just in *****

Just made the room reservation and the airline ticket is ordered. I'm really looking forward to it after missing it last year.

[Badray]

WOW! Thanks for the trip down memory lane. I was at AIMM in 2000 and other events since. Dianne, I think that you are the only one of the founders that I have not met yet. I did see you on TV a few years back as you made monkeys out of the MMM people. I look forward to meeting you some day as well.

[PistolPaknMama]

Dianne, I think that you are the only one of the founders that I have not met yet.

Well then we shall fix that soon! I sure don't like being left out! :-)

And you are more than welcomed! It was a very nostalgic trip for us too. Fortunately, none of the FReepers....and don't you tell this ok?....knew that we had no idea what we were doing. It all came together in spite of us. Divine Providence? Besides my beautiful children, to have been in this place at this time has been one of the greatest gifts in my life.

[PistolPaknMama]

TAXXY Bump! lol!

[Myrddin]

I was shopping at the Fred Meyer store in Pocatello yesterday and saw a lady wearing a Second Amendment Sisters sweatshirt. My wife was in a hurry to get home, so I didn't stop to chat.

[PistolPaknMama]

The S.Ct. ended it's term June 30. It reconvenes the "1st Monday" in January. Be there or be square. Carry pro2A signs. Rest assured the liberals will be there..they always are.

Moreover, hold Congress accountable. They have the power to keep the S.Ct. in line. This country was built on a system of checks and balances. We now have a court that consults "international law" to make it's decisions. This is how we arrived at the new sodomy ruling. If the S.Ct. consults international law to arrive at a Second Amendment ruling....the consequences could be dire.

The law in this country is based on the Constitution....not some United Nations treaty.

[Badray]

I will be in Houston for the Second Amendment Foundation's Annual Gun Rights Policy Conference in September. I believe that Maria will be there and I'm basil will be too being as she lives in Texas. Then in January, I'll be at CPAC and visiting the SAS booth quite often.

I hope to see you at one of those places.

PS - The only way that I (or anyone would know) knew that you ladies didn't know what you were doing is by you telling. But your secret is safe with me and 127,365 FReepers and lurkers.

[teeman8r]

no disrespect intended, sas has my utmost respect... i plan to be in dc to help take on the minimum mom march...

teeman