 | A Jamaican friend of mine, after reading about a shooting in our town, asked me why we allowed so many guns in our country. i told him we'd rather shoot each other occasionally than have the government be the only ones to have guns, he accepted the explanation without question. |
“The Supreme Court’s decision today reinforces the power and vitality of our Constitution as a bulwark against the encroachment by government on our fundamental rights, including the right to keep and bear arms. As Americans, the protection of our Constitutional rights shouldn’t depend on which state or which city we reside in. Today’s decision reflects what the Supreme Court and the legal system is supposed to be all about: strictly interpreting the words of the Constitution, not bending them or deviating them for ideological or political ends.
“I am disappointed that President Obama’s first appointment to the Supreme Court, Justice Sotomayor, joined the dissent in trampling this important right today, after previously claiming to understand the right the court upheld in the Heller case. I hope that as the Senate reviews the nomination of Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan, Senators will be sure to discern exactly where she stands on the plain words of the Constitution.”
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The Supreme Court ruled today in a 5-to-4 decision that the Second Amendment’s guarantee of an individual right to bear arms applies to state and local gun control laws,
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- Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., writing for the majority, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., Justices Antonin Scalia, Anthony M. Kennedy and Clarence Thomas.
- in dissented: Justices John Paul Stevens, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen G. Breyer and Sonia Sotomayor.
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