It seems as more time
passes and laws are written, the more we all loose the ability to
protect life, well being and property. I am old enough to remember a
time when all these could be protected by force if necessary, or at
least protected better than now days.
You know, the
Constitution gave us the guarantee of life,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and then gave us the tools by
which to accomplish just that. Over time our rights have been eroded
even to the point of the inability to protect even our lives and the
lives of family and friends. These rights have not been taken away by
the action of law abiding citizens but by lawmakers and courts. These
days a criminal often has more rights than an ordinary law abiding
citizen, and the real bad part is, they also are in a better position
to gain support from courts and the current law.
Injustice comes in many
forms. The current laws are largely an injustice to law abiding
people in altogether too many instances, but with the ruling by the
Supreme Court on the DC gun ban and most states now provide for
concealed carry of firearms, a reversal of
sorts is in the works.
The Supreme Court's ruling
on the wording of the Second Amendment in
this case was not complete enough however. Their ruling basically
only dealt with the “keep” word and did not deal so much with the
“bear” word. To keep arms means to possess arms and bear arms
means carry arms. Two distinct different meanings, but both words
appear in the Second Amendment in the same context! If indeed a
right to “keep” or possess a firearm exists, a right to “bear”
or carry a firearm must also exist because the Second Amendment
states that “, the right of the people to keep and
bear arms must not be infringed.
I think they were hoping
to dump the bear or carry burden on the cities and states but then it
was the Constitution that governs the Federal Govt. they were ruling
on, not any state or city constitution. Every city, county and state
located in the USA at the time of the first statehood and every state
and subsequently every city and county in those states who enjoyed
statehood afterward, had to agree to abide by the Constitution of the
United States.
Seems to me that thousands
of gun laws are therefore null and void!
