From the Heller Decision

[Subdeacon Joe]

I had forgotten about this section:

 

"In Nunn v. State, 1 Ga. 243, 251 (1846), the Georgia Supreme Court
construed the Second Amendment as protecting the “natural right of
self-defence” and therefore struck down a ban on carrying pistols
openly. Its opinion perfectly captured the way in which the operative
clause of the Second Amendment furthers the purpose announced right:


“The right of the whole people, old and young, men, women and boys, and
not militia only, to keep and bear arms of every description, and not
such merely as are used by the militia, shall not be infringed,
curtailed, or broken in upon, in the smallest degree; and all this for
the important end to be attained: the rearing up and qualifying a
well-regulated militia, so vitally necessary to the security of a free
State. Our opinion is, that ANY LAW, State or Federal, is repugnant to
the Constitution, and void, which contravenes this right, originally
belonging to our forefathers, trampled under foot by Charles I. and
his two wicked sons and successors, re-established by the revolution of
1688, conveyed to this land of liberty by the colonists, and finally
incorporated conspicuously in our own Magna Charta!”

-Supreme Court Justice Scalia, ruling opinion D.C. v. Heller

[Muleshoe Bill SASS #67022]

^{And all it will take is for a certain current Supreme Court Justice to retire and the ruling president to appoint another like the last two and the next decision will read entirely opposite. We need to keep it in mind to get out the vote next year in the midterms and it NOT too early!}