Thursday, June 26, 2008

Surprise, Surprise! US Supreme Court decides that the country should actually follow the US Constitution!

In a 5-4 ruling the US Supreme Court determined that the second amendment of the Bill of Rights of the US Constitution applies to individuals. This is the first time ever that the Supreme Court has ruled on individual gun ownership. This ruling renders a 32 year old handgun ban in Washington DC, and similar ban attempts in Chicago illegal.
Regardless of how you feel about gun ownership, this ruling seemed pretty straightforward. The court basically ruled that, yes, the second amendment DOES apply. It cannot be ignored. They are saying that the country actually does have to follow that document we consider "the law of the land". What frightens me is that 4 people who are supposed to be intelligent, legal experts actually voted against the ruling!
Look folks, we either follow the Constitution or we don't. There can be no in-between. You may personally not like guns, or personally believe they should be banned, but unless you are able to amend the constitution (and a process exists for that), you have to respect the document. Too often our political leaders pursue issues based on the prevailing winds of the day, rather than the true doctrines with which this country was founded.Can you imagine if some municipalities (such as Washington DC) decided that the first amendment did not apply? Can you imagine that Washington DC leadership decided that they did not like some of the articles published in the newspaper, so they were going to ban the press within their boarders??! Of course, this would cause an absolute outrage (as it should). However, similar attacks on the second amendment are accepted. Again, regardless of how you feel about guns, the attack on our Constitution has to make you sick. Thankfully, there were 5 justices that were wise enough to uphold the Constitution. Halleluiah! Comments welcome. Let's hear from you in intelligent debate.

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