A link to a great article at Reason.com which sets out – from a libertarian perspective – the historic judgment of the US Supreme Court yesterday in favor of gun rights and clarifying that the Second Amendment does confer an individual right to keep and bear arms, not only a collective one. Follow the link to the full article here, and here’s an excerpt to get you started:
“Yesterday’s decision is a huge victory for liberty. First, we saved the Second Amendment. That much should be obvious from the opinion. Yesterday, federal courts in 47 states were telling Americans they had no Second Amendment rights. The score is now 50-0, plus the capital, in the other direction. For budding lawyers, “individual right” is now the correct answer on the Multi-State Bar Exam. The movement to end private firearm ownership in America is dead and buried. Yes, we’ve got some work to do to make sure it stays that way. It will.”