Second Amendment Victory in California

  As hard as this is to believe, second amendment advocates won a victory recently in of all places California’s ninth circuit court of appeals. The notoriously liberal court ruled that INDIVIDUALS have the right to challenge state and local gun laws.

  Relying on the landmark decision of the Supreme Court last year in the Heller vs Washington D.C., the ninth circuit court of appeals had the following majority opinion:

…the right to keep and bear arms is ‘deeply rooted in this Nation’s history and tradition.’ Colonial revolutionaries, the Founders, and a host of commentators and lawmakers living during the first one hundred years of the Republic all insisted on the fundamental nature of the right. It has long been regarded as the ‘true palladium of liberty.’ Colonists relied on it to assert and to win their independence, and the victorious Union sought to prevent a recalcitrant South from abridging it less than a century later. The crucial role this deeply rooted right has played in our birth and history compels us to recognize that it is indeed fundamental, that it is necessary to the Anglo-American conception of ordered liberty that we have inherited.

  This ruling came down in a case that involved Alameda County’s ban on gun shows being held on county property. While the decision was not a victory for the gun show promoters themselves, this is the second time in the last year where a court has ruled that the second amendment applies to individuals. A direct contrast to the argument that the gun control advocates have promoted.

  Second amendment advocates are beginning to gain momentum, we seem to be turning a corner but we must not let down our guard. The fact that this decision came down from a far left leaning court is extremely encouraging but now is not the time to lie back. Those who would so willingly assault the constitution will not be quick to take this defeat in stride, they will continue to fight and we must meet them on the front and not back down.

  This is not only a fight that we can win, and are winning, it is a fight that we must win. If we let them take away this right that is guaranteed in the constitution what right will be next?

  You may not have strong feelings one way or the other about gun rights but you should have strong feeling about the constitution and that is what this fight is all about.