My DC vs. Heller opinion.
June 26, 2008Today the Supreme Court came out with a decision regarding the DC vs. Heller arguments. I am not going to get into the 5 to 4 decision, nor am I going to go into the specifics of the case. I am going to assume that all of the readers here can Google the results for themselves. But I will say this; the battle has just begun. As you can probably tell by my other posts, I am a gun owner. And I am a proud gun owner. I am not an extremist, nor a militia member. Both things I have been accused of being. Not because I exhibit that behavior. I don’t cram my 2nd amendment views down people’s throats, nor do I even own 1 piece of camouflage clothing. I am accused of such things simply because I own guns.
Some of the forums I frequent bring up the topic of celebration. Questions like “what are you going to do to celebrate the SCOTUS decision.” Well here is my reply.
I don’t know if I am going to celebrate. What is the joy in having the most powerful court in the land affirm what we already knew? There should have been no question as to what the 2nd amendment means.
I will celebrate when the gun groups get together as a united front and through an education and political campaign make gun rights in this country what they should have been.
I will celebrate when I can say in public, or at work, that I am a gun owner and not have to explain myself.
I will celebrate when I do not have to worry about grown men and women with irrational fears taking away my rights.
And I will celebrate when my future kids can wear a t-shirt with a firearm reference to school and not get disciplined.
The fight is nowhere near over yet.
