{"id":25331,"date":"2019-12-31T18:24:18","date_gmt":"2020-01-01T00:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?page_id=25331"},"modified":"2020-08-16T01:59:38","modified_gmt":"2020-08-16T06:59:38","slug":"an-individual-right","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?page_id=25331","title":{"rendered":"An Individual Right"},"content":{"rendered":"

An individual right<\/a><\/p>\n

While the nine Supreme Court Justices in D.C. v. Heller disagreed on how the right to keep and bear arms, protected by the Second Amendment, could be limited, all nine of them agreed that the right was one held by individuals, not \u201cthe militia\u201d.\u00a0 This is held out by their opinions and dissents.<\/p>\n

To begin with, the\u00a0Opinion of the Court<\/a>\u00a0was signed by Justices Scalia, Roberts, Kennedy, Thomas, and Alito, indicating that they agreed with the following statements:<\/p>\n

Putting all of these textual elements together, we find that they guarantee the individual right to possess and carry weapons in case of confrontation.
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\nThere seems to us no doubt, on the basis of both text and history, that the\u00a0Second Amendment\u00a0conferred an individual right to keep and bear arms.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Moving on,\u00a0Justice Stevens wrote a dissent<\/a>\u00a0to which Justices Souter, Ginsberg, and Breyer added their signatures:<\/p>\n

The question presented by this case is not whether the\u00a0Second Amendment\u00a0protects a \u201ccollective right\u201d or an \u201cindividual right.\u201d Surely it protects a right that can be enforced by individuals.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Finally, Justices Stevens, Souter, and Ginsberg also signed\u00a0Justice Breyer\u2019s additional dissent<\/a>:<\/p>\n

In interpreting and applying this Amendment, I take as a starting point the following four propositions, based on our precedent and today\u2019s opinions, to which I believe the entire Court subscribes:<\/p>\n

(1)\u2002The Amendment protects an \u201cindividual\u201d right\u2014i.e.<\/em>, one that is separately possessed, and may be separately enforced, by each person on whom it is conferred. See,\u00a0e.g.<\/em>,\u00a0ante<\/em>, at 22 (opinion of the Court);\u00a0ante<\/em>, at 1 (Stevens, J.<\/span>, dissenting).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Put simply, not even the Supreme Court Justices who agreed with \u201cgun control\u201d extremists about D.C.\u2019s draconian gun laws were willing to sign on to the wholly spurious, historically-unsupported, recently-fabricated notion that the Second Amendment exclusively protects a right in relation to a \u201cmilitia\u201d.<\/p>\n

The more you learn about how poorly supported the \u201cgun control\u201d position is, the more you start to understand why the people in the anti-rights movement are almost invariably so bitter, antagonistic, and hateful.\u00a0 It\u00a0has<\/em>\u00a0to wear on a person to be proven wrong at every turn.<\/p>\n

One wonders why they simply do not accept reality and move on with their lives, happier and healthier for it.<\/p>\n

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An individual right While the nine Supreme Court Justices in D.C. v. Heller disagreed on how the right to keep and bear arms, protected by the Second Amendment, could be limited, all nine of them agreed that the right was one held by individuals, not \u201cthe militia\u201d.\u00a0 This is held out by their opinions and … Continue reading “An Individual Right”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-25331","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25331"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58309,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25331\/revisions\/58309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}