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Part I – The United States Senate:
A brief was filed for DC v. Heller with the Supreme Court for Amici Curiae by 55 Senators, and the President of the Senate, Dick Cheney.
This brief lists specific ways the Legislature has supported the Individual Right to Keep and Bear Arms throughout its history. Looking at the names of those who signed with their support provides a rare insight into who is willing to publicly support the Constitutional Right to Keep and Bear Arms.
Conversely, the names of the 45 Senators who did not sign this document fail my litmus test for support of the rights of Citizens under the Second Amendment. (see list in link.)
Gun Rights is still my Number One issue. Thanks for posting this.
[...] The two remaining presidential candidates in the Democrat party did not affix their name to the brief filed in support of a right to bear arms. [...]
The right of self-defense is a corollary to the right to life; to deny one is to deny the other. And the purpose of government is to insure our rights, not to infringe on them.
The fact is that governments should not be involved in permitting the carriage of weapons, either openly or concealed.
In Murdock v. Pennsylvania (1943) the Supreme Court stated that a constitutionally- protected right may not be licensed, nor a fee charged. The Right to Keep and Bear Arms is one of those protected natural rights.
In Shuttlesworth v. Birmingham, Alabama (1962) the Supreme Court decided that “If
the state does convert a liberty into a privilege, the citizen can engage in
the right with impunity.” (That means they can’t punish you, folks!)
To paraphrase an oft-quoted movie line, “Permits? We don’ need no
steenking permits!”
Neil Evangelista
Personal Protection Instructor
Boca Raton, FL