State Legislature Introduces Anti-Gun Law
The state legislature of Illinois, where some of the worst urban violence and lawlessness is taking place, has introduced House Resolution 855, which “urges the courts, especially the U.S. Supreme Court, to adhere to the clear wording of the Second Amendment being a right afforded to state sponsored militias and not individuals.”
The “clear wording” referred to in the case actually was very precise in stating that individuals, not militia, had a right to be personally armed.
In District of Columbia v. Heller, the tired, misleading argument that only state militia had a right to be armed was finally dismissed, and it was clearly decided that the key phrase in the Second Amendment referred to individuals and not to some ephemeral, undefined state militia organization that did not truly exist then, nor does it exist now. But that does not seem to matter to the law makers in Illinois as they revisit the same old tune.
To launch their misguided poppycock the legislature resorts to quoting the dissenting (read losing) opinion of Justice John Paul Stevens to support their unconstitutional reading of the law.
The Second Amendment was adopted to protect the right of the people of each of the several States to maintain a well-regulated militia. It was a response to concerns raised during ratification of the Constitution that the power of Congress to disarm the state militias and create a national standing army posed an intolerable threat to the sovereignty of the several States.Neither the text of the Amendment nor the arguments advanced by its proponents evidenced the slightest interest in limiting any legislature’s authority to regulate private civilian uses of firearms. Specifically, there is no indication that the Framers of the Amendment intended to enshrine the common-law right of self-defense in the Constitution.
The supream court will nullify this. Even with a split court.
Try to take them
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