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Supreme Court ducks Second Amendment — for now
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It’s not often that a nondecision is a good decision, but the Supreme Court’s ruling Monday morning that it would not decide a New York City gun case was the right call.
And, in a sense, gun control advocates dodged a legal bullet — this time. Unfortunately, the conservative members of the court signaled in dissents that they might be looking for a way to recognize a private Second Amendment right to carry a firearm in public. |
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PHORTO
(4/30/2020)
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I have to laugh at the antis' insistence that Heller only established a right to keep a handgun for self-defense in the home.
They ignore two important words, "such as," in the holding. They weren't inserted to mean nothing. What they do mean is that keeping a gun in the home is but ONE lawful exercise. While that was the specific claim at issue, the sentence in no way limits the right to that one narrow instance; it allows that there are other lawful purposes.
And that reference should be at the top of our list of arguments. |
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