Friday, February 05, 2010
Chicago vs. the 2nd Amendment
The 2nd Amendment is constantly in dispute.
The case described here is the latest; and, perhaps the biggest yet...
The case described here is the latest; and, perhaps the biggest yet...
Colleen Mastony has the story at ChicagoTribune.com:
"Since the early 1900s, federal courts and most state courts had agreed that the Second Amendment protected only a collective right to bear arms, which, at the time the Constitution was framed, was considered integral to maintaining militias. But the 5th Circuit decision in United States v. Emerson bucked that precedent, ruling that the amendment protected an individual right — to possess a gun in the home for self-defense, for example. As the libertarian advocates had hoped, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed in the Heller case, handing down a historic decision that energized the gun-rights movement. But because Washington is a federal district, the decision did not apply to states and other cities.
So, the battle shifted to Chicago, an obvious second front because the city's handgun ban was widely considered the strictest in the nation behind the Washington law."
