Today the Supreme Court of the United States struck down Washington DC’s handgun ban, by upholding the plain text of the Second Amendment to our Constitution stating that gun ownership is a personal right.<\/p>\n
CNN story: cnn.com\/2008\/US\/06\/26\/scotus.guns<\/a>. The full text of the decision: 07-290.pdf<\/a>.<\/p>\n Hopefully this will start a trend across all of our courts of looking at the precise wording of laws and applying them directly, without attempting to add flavors of nuanced interpretation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today the Supreme Court of the United States struck down Washington DC’s handgun ban, by upholding the plain text of the Second Amendment to our Constitution stating that gun ownership is a personal right. CNN story: cnn.com\/2008\/US\/06\/26\/scotus.guns. The full text of the decision: 07-290.pdf. Hopefully this will start a trend across all of our courts …
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