KenDckey -> RE: Latest 2n Amendment Case (3/22/2016 8:27:09 PM)
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ORIGINAL: thompsonx ORIGINAL: KenDckey It is a direct copy/paste from SCOTUS. Try again From your link: The Court has held that “the Second Amendment extends, prima facie, to all instruments that constitute bearable arms, even those that were not in existence at the time of the founding,” District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U. S. 570, 582 (2008), and that this “Second Amendment right is fully applicable to the States,” McDonald v. Chicago, 561 U. S. 742, 750 (2010)... For these three reasons, the explanation the Massachusetts court offered for upholding the law contradicts this Court’s precedent. Consequently, the petition for a writ of certiorari and the motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis are granted. The judgment of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts is vacated, and the case is remanded for further proceedings not inconsistent with this opinion. It is so ordered. ... It is settled that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to keep and bear arms that applies against both the Federal Government and the States. District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U. S. 570 (2008); McDonald v. Chicago, 561 U. S. 742 (2010). That right vindicates the “basic right” of “individual self-defense.” Id., at 767; see Heller, supra, at 599, 628. Caetano’s encounter with her violent ex-boyfriend illustrates the connection between those fundamental rights: By armingherself, Caetano was able to protect against a physicalthreat that restraining orders had proved useless to prevent. And, commendably, she did so by using a weapon that posed little, if any, danger of permanently harming either herself or the father of her children. The scotus cites heller and mcdonald as the bassis for their decission to uphold her right to self defense. Perhaps you might want to go back and read the cite you posted. So you agree then, that the quote came from the current decision. It may a quote from another decision, but what I quoted, based upon your quote, came from my link. Thanks.
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