Second Amendment rights require constant defense
Several states’ laws, as well as the reluctance of most local officials to participate in anti-gun hysteria, make it clear that the vast majority of residents of our states support the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent ruling on Second Amendment rights. But the very language used in one justice’s dissent, as well as reaction to the ruling from many liberals, particularly in urban areas, makes it clear that efforts to chip away at Second Amendment rights will continue. The court ruled that the Second Amendment does not allow laws to prohibit Americans from keeping handguns in their homes for purposes of self-defense. But, reflecting the social divide on the issue of firearms, the decision came on a 5-4 vote of justices. It would have surprised and shocked our nation’s Founders that the issue even went as far as the Supreme Court. Their intention in writing the Second Amendment was clear.
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