The Supreme Court, in upholding the 2nd Amendment, will probably strike down state and local gun bans. Justice Scalia stated the obvious: "The right to keep and bear arms is right there . . . in the Bill of Rights."
The current case before the court involves Chicago's ban on handguns. Chicago's special assistant corporation counsel told the court "this is not fundamental, unlike freedom of speech or freedom of religion." Huh????? It's in the same Bill of Rights, isn't it? What makes the 1st Amendment more "fundamental" than the 2nd? If that's all he's got to argue, the justices should have short work of this decision!
"Justices likely to end local gun bans." The Dallas Morning News; March 3, 2010; p. 5A.
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