“The fourteenth amendment has not extended the rights and privileges of citizenship one iota. They are right where they always were.”
Summary: The Second Amendment served as an important declaration that said armed citizen militias were preferred over standing armies during times of peace. I wanted to take the opportunity today to add some late commentary over the recent court holding in McDonald v. Chicago that extended the protection of an “individual right to possess a […]
“[T]here is no need to deceive ourselves as to what the original Second Amendment said and meant. Of course, properly understood, it is no limitation upon arms control by the states.” –Antoin Scalia, A Matter of Interpretation: Federal Courts and the Law (1997) The recent Supreme Court ruling in District of Columbia v. Heller caught […]