Nor did laws on gun "control". Also in the Tribune, same day:
The Supreme Court hasn't examined the nature of the 2nd Amendment since 1939. For decades, the conventional wisdom has been that the amendment applies only to the arming of state militias, since it reads, "A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
But that began to change as gun-rights groups, including the National Rifle Association, pushed for a more sweeping interpretation of the provision as a near-absolute ban on regulating guns. They cast the 2nd Amendment in terms of an individual right, something akin to freedom of speech or religion.
"Guns are like books or churches," said Dave Kopel of the libertarian Independence Institute, citing the fundamental right of self-defense. "Survival is a constitutional value that should be taken into account."They say maybe she could have moved, hidden away for a time in a battered woman's shelter, or engineered her own disappearance.
Another choice--Second Amendment Sisters. Rally today on the Supreme Court Steps.
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