Time to Affirm 2nd Amendment Rights by Susan Heathfield.

I have long affirmed the rights of the American people, under the 2nd Amendment to the Bill of Rights, to keep and bear arms. The Supreme Court should choose to hear the Parker v. the District of Columbia case to, once and for all, affirm that citizens have gun ownership rights under the 2nd Amendment.

Need I hold my breath to think that the court might also affirm that the 2nd Amendment can be invoked against states, as informally other amendments have been used since the Civil War? I think not. Parker does not involve a state and the court may limit its opinion to the fact that our constitution does not allow a complete ban on guns as the D.C. law did.

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