Americans have right to guns under landmark ruling

Individual Americans have a right to own guns, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday for the first time in the country’s history, striking down a strict gun control law in the U.S. capital.

The landmark 5-4 ruling marked the first time in nearly 70 years the high court has addressed the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. It rejected the argument the right to keep and bear arms was tied to service in a state militia.

Justice Antonin Scalia said for the majority the Second Amendment protects an individual right to possess a firearm unconnected with militia service and to use it for traditional lawful purposes, such as self-defense in the home.

As far as the Chief is concerned this is not only a good decision…but it is the only rational one that could have been made based on the Constitution.

The really scary aspect of this is…what if the Court had gone the OTHER way…opening the floodgate for libDonk persecution of gun ownership…and with no legal protection left. A 5-4 decision is, as the saying goes, “a close-run thing”. Fortunately reason prevailed, and all sorts of unpleasantness can be avoided, at least for now.

It sure is fun to listen to the libs shuckin’ to try to interpret their way out of this one…with Daley’s Chicago regime next in the NRA sights, there must be some really interesting conversation going on with his machine’s candidate, the messiah B.O. himself trying to backpedal and sound like he’s not REALLY against guns.

The Chief also notes, most of the commentators, certainly those of the MSM drive-by persuasion, ignore the REAL 2nd Amendment gorilla in the corner – namely that said right to bear arms was NOT to enablle hunting, personal protection, fighting off Indians, or whatever. The real reason to insure that the citizenry was armed was to act as a limit to the government…so it it got too uppity, it could be overturned as may be necessary…just like it was in 1776!