not the Kagan court, yet
In its second major ruling on gun rights in three years, the Supreme Court Monday extended the federally protected right to keep and bear arms to all 50 states. The decision will be hailed by gun rights advocates and comes over the opposition of gun control groups, the city of Chicago and four justices.
Justice Samuel Alito wrote for the five justice majority saying “the right to keep and bear arms must be regarded as a substantive guarantee, not a prohibition that could be ignored so long as the States legislated in an evenhanded manner.”
The ruling builds upon the Court’s 2008 decision in D.C. v. Heller that invalidated the handgun ban in the nation’s capital. More importantly, that decision held that the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms was a right the Founders specifically delegated to individuals. The justices affirmed that decision and extended its reach to the 50 states. Today’s ruling also invalidates Chicago’s handgun ban.
Excellent.
However, it also points out some real ugliness in left-wing jurisprudenciness:
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dissented in Heller and wondered why the right to bear arms was necessary to extend to the states. “[I]f the notion is that these are principles that any free society would adopt, well, a lot of free societies have rejected the right to keep and bear arms.”
Ginsburg, you incompetent jackanapes, what foreigners do or think is not, repeat, not part of the supreme law of the land! A foreigner’s view of what constitutes a “free society” is freakin’ inadmissible!
”America is not Europe and hasn’t been since 1776. That’s the whole friggin’ point of America.” — DougM
Now go look up the meanings of “free” and “right.”
(jackass ...)
I gotta believe that, somewhere in Texas, Kim DuToit is doin’ his Happy Dance.
JimB’s comment over at Rodge’s
DougM (constitutional fetishist) 
