Protecting the 2nd Amendment in Heller Decision

Aside from overturning Roe v. Wade, Conservatives have pined for a clarification of the 2nd Amendment more than any other action from the Supreme Court. Today, we got it:

The U.S. Supreme Court Thursday, in a 5-4 ruling, for the first time in U.S. history declared the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution contains a specific right to individual gun ownership and rejected Washington, D.C., handgun restrictions, which were the strictest in the nation.

"There seems to us no doubt on the basis of both text and history that the Second Amendment conferred an individual right to keep and bear arms," Justice Antonin Scalia wrote in the 64-page majority ruling. "This meaning is strongly confirmed by the historical background of the Second Amendment."

I agree with what Rush said about it being pretty damn scary that four justices interpret the Constitution completely wrong as the 2nd Amendment is about as clear as any of the amendments.

The decision made clear that the right to keep and bear arms is an eternal right as envisioned by the men who wrote it. The Supreme Court (well at least a majority) interpreted the Constitution as is their job under the separation of powers unlike Roe V. Wade where SCOTUS made law and overstepped their bounds into the realm of the legislative branch.

Glenn Reynolds has a bunch of links as does Hot Air. They are smarter and Glenn is a law professor so read what they've written.

Pic at right via Justice Talking.