Parker vs DC and July 4th.

[jpk1md]

Folks, here is a copy of the DC Courts Ruling on Parker vs DC.

Its a bit long but goes into great detail wrt the Judges and their reasoning behind the decision.

There is a great bit of history and supporting cases referenced for those of you interested. It also speaks about English/Common Law and the thoughts/reasoning of our Founding Fathers and how/why they wrote the things they did.

Also makes references to 2A Stances of some of the current Supreme Court Justices.

For those of you interested in cutting to the chase and reading the courts conclusion jump ahead to p46......its the kind of stuff that will warm your heart. It goes to great lengths to in no uncertain terms stuff Fenty/DC.

Happy July 4th and thanks to all of you that have served this country to protect our Freedom.

 

[NickEllis]

*tear*....


Thats just beautiful.

And man, they really ripped into the dissent. And justifyably.

Favorite line of all time:

To summarize, we conclude that the Second Amendment
protects an individual right to keep and bear arms. That right
existed prior to the formation of the new government under the
Constitution and was premised on the private use of arms for
activities such as hunting and self-defense, the latter being
understood as resistance to either private lawlessness or the
depredations of a tyrannical government (or a threat from
abroad). In addition, the right to keep and bear arms had the
important and salutary civic purpose of helping to preserve the
citizen militia. The civic purpose was also a political expedient
for the Federalists in the First Congress as it served, in part, to
placate their Antifederalist opponents. The individual right
facilitated militia service by ensuring that citizens would not be
barred from keeping the arms they would need when called forth
for militia duty. Despite the importance of the Second
Amendment’s civic purpose, however, the activities it protects
are not limited to militia service, nor is an individual’s
enjoyment of the right contingent upon his or her continued or
intermittent enrollment in the militia.