Is it time for this?
WASHINGTON: For the first time in 70 years, the US Supreme Court may decide next week whether to examine the question of the right to bear arms, something which is fiercely upheld by millions of Americans.
The US capital of Washington, which is trying to stem a wave of violence in its seedier neighbourhoods, has lodged a case with the nine Supreme Court judges seeking to maintain its three-decade ban on individuals carrying handguns.
The judges were due to have an initial discussion on Friday, and their decision on whether or not to examine the question could be announced as early as Tuesday.
The case goes right to the heart of the American constitution, which in its second amendment declares that: "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."
Washington, which is also home to the president and the government, has interpreted the amendment to mean that there is a collective right to bear arms for those who are part of a police force or a security force.
With the gradual erosion of our rights by preceding administrations which reached a crescendo with the current gang of thieves infesting Washington over the past seven years, including:
- illegal domestic spying
- warrantless wiretaps
- kidnapping (ahem, rendition) and torture of American citizens, nationals, and others (aka - "disappearing / disappearances" ala 1970s Iran, Chile, and Argentina / 1980s El Salvador, Nicauragua, Costa Rica, and Guatemala)
- elimination of habeas corpus
- indefinite imprisonment without charge
- presidential authority to
- name US citizens and nationals "domestic enemy combatants"
- assume control over national guards (i.e., ability to declare martial law at the state level)
- imprison and hold ANYONE indefinitely and without charge
Is now the right time for them (The Political Elite) to finally remove the final "right" given to us by the founders of this Republic necessary to stem the tide of utter tyranny?