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Possessing firearm is an individual right protected by the constitution
The supreme Court affirmed today the firearm ban was unconstitutional infringement of the second amendment. The court position that the right to bear arms is an individual right, and is not limited to service in the militia, and that using of the weapon in self-defense within the home are very encouraging:
1. The Second Amendment protects an individual right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia, and to use that arm for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home.
I still think that the government, as the monopoly on the mean of legal coercion, should be able to ban firearms, but it should be done through an amendment to the constitution not by ignoring it.