The right to protect yourself and your property is unalienable. I’m proud to share a belief in this right, as well as a surname, with one of the plaintiffs in today’s case before the Supreme Court, McDonald v. Chicago, which could render unconstitutional Chicago’s handgun ban. Beyond being the correct decision on an individual rights perspective, this would have immediate and long-term effects on crime.
It looks like it will be easier to use the due-process route, rather than the privileges and immunities option, to get the court to incorporate Second Amendment rights to state and local governments. The latter approach could have the added benefit of expanding economic liberty, but I’ll take whichever one that works.
(Not this) McDonald v. Chicago
The right to protect yourself and your property is unalienable. I’m proud to share a belief in this right, as well as a surname, with one of the plaintiffs in today’s case before the Supreme Court, McDonald v. Chicago, which could render unconstitutional Chicago’s handgun ban. Beyond being the correct decision on an individual rights perspective, this would have immediate and long-term effects on crime.
It looks like it will be easier to use the due-process route, rather than the privileges and immunities option, to get the court to incorporate Second Amendment rights to state and local governments. The latter approach could have the added benefit of expanding economic liberty, but I’ll take whichever one that works.