How should the Supreme Court rule in Heller V DC?

Question

It is a Second Amendment case.

Answer 1

They should rule in accordance with the second amendment of course. This means the D.C. gun ban will be repealed and the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

Answer 2

I don't know much about this case other than it has something to do with handgun ownership rights. I don't live in DC but I also don't believe that we need anymore laws on the books. We need to enforce existing laws and we might be ok. A criminal can always get what they need to commit crime.But, the idea of everyone walking around with guns in their pockets only fosters vigilantism, another form of civil rights violation.

Answer 3

What are the particulars?

Answer 4

“A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”

Gun control is ILLEGAL and WRONG. There is nothing more disgusting than the government aiding the criminals by disarming law-abiding citizens. I would certainly hope that the Supreme Court overturns the D.C. gun laws as well as all the other unconstitutional gun laws around the country. Some people obviously do not understand the meaning of “shall not be infringed” nor do they understand why the beginning of the amendment makes mention of a “well regulated militia.” If you take a look at the federalist papers and writings of the founders of this country you will understand EXACTLY what they meant.



"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. The strongest reason for people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government." –Thomas Jefferson

"Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the American people’s liberty teeth and the keystone under independence." - George Washington

"The militia, who are in fact the effective part of the people at large, will render many troops quite unnecessary. They will form a powerful check upon the regular troops, and will generally be sufficient to over-awe them" - Tench Coxe, An American Citizen IV, October 21, 1787

"A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves...and include all men capable of bearing arms." – Richard Henry Lee

"Are we at last brought to such a humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our own defense? Where is the difference between having our arms in our own possession and under our own direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?" - Patrick Henry June 9, 1788, in the Virginia Convention

on the ratification of the Constitution.

"Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate governments, to which the people are attached and by which the militia officers are appointed, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition, more insurmountable than any which a simple government of any form can admit of." - James Madison

Answer 5

Yes!!! Heller v DC is Affirmed!!

Now it is time to roll back other "Bans"

Answer 6

The second amendment is not absolute, so some government restrictions re: firearms are permissible, just as the first amendment allows laws against libel or fraud. But the DC laws essentially make self-defense impossible and must be struck down in at least some of its provisions. My guess is they'll be as vague as they feel they can get away with, rather than specifically saying some of the obvious: requiring guns be disassembled or locked up makes them useless in the situations in which they're most desperately needed, and handguns have a place in self-defense that can't be filled with long arms. I think the majority of the court really wish lawmakers would use some sense rather than forcing their hand with such draconian measures, and they'd really rather the laws were handled by the legislative branch, if that branch would only act reasonably.