Meanwhile a minimum of 14 Republican Senators are working day and night to grab your guns. What’s wrong with that picture?
In the words of a celebrity recently in the news âalrightalrightalrightâ
It’s a damn shame it’s even in question.
I know this Ruling really was a no-brainer, but I’m hoping it’s not just greasing the skids for the Case when the NEW “Red Flag” B.S. Law is challenged, and it gets Upheld, so we can target the Opposition by calling them “Mentally Unfit” to be armed against the “Progressives” and “Gimme-dats”.
Yay. It only took a hundred years.
My favorite selected excerpts From Thomas Clarenceâs Opinion...
(In Heller) we looked to history because âit has always been widely understood that the Second Amendment . . . codified a pre-existing right.â The Amendment âwas not intended to lay down a novel principle but rather codified a right inherited from our English ancestors.â
After surveying English history dating from the late 1600s, along with American colonial views leading up to the founding, we found âno doubt, on the basis of both text and history, that the Second Amendment conferred an individual right to keep and bear arms.
We therefore turn to whether the plain text of the Second Amendment protects Kochâs and Nashâs proposed course of conduct â carrying handguns publicly for self-defense. We have little difficulty concluding that it does.
Nothing in the Second Amendmentâs text draws a home/public distinction with respect to the right to keep and bear arms.
Heller further confirmed that the right to âbear armsâ refers to the right to âwear, bear, or carry . . . upon the person or in the clothing or in a pocket, for the purpose . . . of being armed and ready for offensive or defensive action in a case of conflict with another person.â
This definition of âbearâ naturally encompasses public carry.
Most gun owners do not wear a holstered pistol at their hip in their bedroom or while sitting at the dinner table. Although individuals often âkeepâ firearms in their home, at the ready for self-defense, most do not âbearâ (i.e., carry) them in the home beyond moments of actual confrontation. To confine the right to âbearâ arms to the home would nullify half of the Second Amendmentâs operative protections.
Moreover, confining the right to âbearâ arms to the home would make little sense given that self-defense is âthe central component of the [Second Amendment] right itself.
After all, the Second Amendment guarantees an âindividual right to possess and carry weapons in case of confrontation,â Heller, 554 U. S., at 592, and confrontation can surely take place outside the home.
Although we remarked in Heller that the need for armed self-defense is perhaps âmost acuteâ in the home, we did not suggest that the need was insignificant elsewhere. Many Americans hazard greater danger outside the home than in it. Many Americans hazard greater danger outside the home than in it. â[A] Chicagoan is a good deal more likely to be attacked on a sidewalk in a rough neighborhood than in his apartment on the 35th floor of the Park Towerâ.
The text of the Second Amendment reflects that reality.
The Second Amendmentâs plain text thus presumptively guarantees petitioners Koch and Nash a right to âbearâ arms in public for self-defense.
The constitutional right to bear arms in public for self-defense is not âa second-class right, subject to an entirely different body of rules than the other Bill of Rights guarantees.â We know of no other constitutional right that an individual may exercise only after demonstrating to government officers some special need. That is not how the First Amendment works when it comes to unpopular speech or the free exercise of religion. It is not how the Sixth Amendment works when it comes to a defendantâs right to confront the witnesses against him. And it is not how the Second Amendment works when it comes to public carry for self-defense.
New Yorkâs proper-cause requirement violates the Fourteenth Amendment in that it prevents law-abiding citizens with ordinary self-defense needs from exercising their right to keep and bear arms. We therefore reverse the judgment of the Court of Appeals and remand the case for further pro- ceedings consistent with this opinion.
It is so ordered.
Years ago, former cop Bo Diedl assisted Radio personality Don Imus in getting a NYC carry permit. Bo explained that, as a celebrity, Imus should have no problem getting such a permit unlike common people who could never qualify. That attitude right there is what went wrong with the Sullivan law.
The libs are melting down over this!
Charlie Kirk is discussing the Supreme Court decisions right now
Charlie Kirk took over the noon slot following Bannon on Monday.
He is doing a great job of unpacking major issues.
Hallelujah!!
Decision (66 pp) by Thomas. Says no other right in the Bill of Rights needs state or local approval to be exercised.
Supes also ruled positively in NC GOP’s favor on redistricting.
So far, Supes are really, really strong this term. The SEC decision (which was I think a 4th Circuit) was also huge.
Now, when they come in on Dobbs and the EPA, you will be able to drive from Kollyfornia to NY by the light of exploding lib heads.
“Supreme Court expands gun rights”
It is impossible for government to “expand” rights.
Government can only restrict rights, or reduce restrictions previously imposed.
I would not be real comfortable being a justice this summer. Why should the regime risk losing the ability to fill the next two or three vacancies? McConnell couldnât louse up a Scalia scenario this time.
The idiot governor of NY said, â It is outrageous that at a moment of national reckoning on gun violenceâ, as if a âmoment of national reckoningâ plays some role in the exercise of oneâs Constitutional rights.
I just got my pistol permit and was going to get my conceal carry next⊠does this ruling negate these? Or state by state basis?
The right to request expensive temporary permission to defend yourself shall not be infringed.
Maybe SCOTUS issued Bruen before Dobbs as a warning re: the psychotic Left taking matters into their own hands.
This is HUGE! This is the case I’ve been waiting for. NY trampled on American’s constitutional rights for over 100 years and was allowed to get away with it. The 2nd amendment includes the right to both keep and bear. They were not letting anybody bear. Now they will have to start.