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br> Reston, Virginia /p>

Finally, the obvious meaning of the Second Amendment to the Bill of Rights has been aired! Putting to rest all the bizarre stretches of the imagination, that confounded logic, the anti-gun nuts prattled for the last seven decades!

So very happy that five of the nine idiots in the US Supreme Court finally got something right, and finally put to rest the correct interpretation of the Second Amendment to the Constitution, that every American citizen has a right to own and use a gun, as an individual and personal right. It's almost a joke that just five of them had to strain to discover the obvious? The other four are hopeless. Now maybe these anti-gun nuts will shut up and go home?

It's time is start repealing all these "gun control" laws that infringe on constitutional rights! All criminals in America need to be put on notice that their intended victims are no longer disarmed, by dingbats and politicians, with ridiculous "gun control."

p>Empirical evidence continues to prove that armed citizens drastically reduce crime. And why not? The scarcity of unarmed victims is most obvious to criminals! br> -- Samuel A. Hill br> Weare, New Hampshire /p> p> Justice Antonin Scalia did a good job explaining the history, foundation of the 2nd amendment. He even made the point that the right is not location (community) specific. Since most crime does not occur in the home and the Court left the license of that right in place nothing of practical good changed with this ruling. DC government will do everything possible to license away that right through the usual means of fees and bureaucratic burden. Non DC residences still have no right even in someone's home there. Transporting firearms throughout the city are still at risk for all practical purposes. The majority stated and assumed as much that no one would be prosecuted for self defense use even in violation of the current ban. I make no such assumption and suspect the D.C. government will make the life of anyone with an openly displayed gun hell. The Court had a historical opportunity to send a clear message to governments that thumb their noses at the 2nd amendment and see such regulations as a revenue source. They missed the mark. br> -- Thom Bateman br> Newport News, Virginia /p>

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