Second Admendment Upheld

The Supreme Court has made a decision that is based on the as constructed intent to protect individual rights over the goverment's inferred and extrapolated power. In the decision on District of Columbia v. Heller, a majority of justices (5-4) ruled today that the Second Amendment is constitutional, affirming the right of idividuals to keep and bear arms, striking the District of Columbia's ban on handguns as unconstitutional.

Comments from the majority opinion....

"Logic demands that there be a link between the stated purpose and the command,"
"We start therefore with a strong presumption that the Second Amendment right is exercised individually and belongs to all Americans."

Authored by Justice Antonin Scalia , joined by Chief Justice John Roberts, Justice Anthony Kennedy, Justice Clarence Thomas and Justice Samuel Alito.

President Bush is catching a great deal of greif these days, but his Supreme selections have been as promised. If this case had come to the court during the Clinton years the decision would have been 5-4 the other way. Does anybody doubt that?