The Federalist – by Bre Payton
The ultra-liberal and frequently overturned U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit just ruled that the Second Amendment protects one’s right to carry a gun openly outside of the home.
“We do not take lightly the problem of gun violence,” the majority opinion in Young v. Hawaii reads. Here’s more, emphasis added.
For better or for worse, the Second Amendment does protect a right to carry a firearm in public for self-defense. We would thus flout the Constitution if we were to hold that, ‘in regulating the manner of bearing arms, the authority of [the State] has no other limit than its own discretion.’ Reid, 1 Ala. at 616. While many respectable scholars and activists might find virtue in a firearms-carry regime that restricts the right to a privileged few, ‘the enshrinement of constitutional rights necessarily takes certain policy choices off the table.’
You can read the whole thing here.
Citing Peruta v. County of San Diego, the court also stated that the Second Amendment does not protect the right of a citizen to carry a gun concealed — a tension that will eventually need to be resolved in another case. Charles Cooke, of National Review has more:
Unless the panel’s decision is reversed en banc, the two decisions will have to be reconciled. When that happens, it seems most likely either that (a) the court will strike down the open carry bans in Hawaii and California, or (b) the court will adopt the argument, presented by the plaintiffs in Peruta, that a state can choose to ban either open or concealed carry, but could not prohibit both. Watch this space.
The fact that an ultra-liberal court affirmed Americans’ right to openly carry a handgun is a huge win for all Americans, even if the court is dropping breadcrumbs they hope the U.S. Supreme Court picks up to ultimately restrict gun rights nationwide.
Bre Payton is a staff writer at The Federalist. Follow her on Twitter.
I’m sorry 9th circuit, I’ll carry my pistol where and how I damn well please…
They have no say over the 2nd article…..PERIOD!!!!…..or any of the other ones to be exact.
Fkng a K.
Them fagz at ninth.
Have a death warrant.
Can you believe them fag child molesters in SFO can dicktate how they can get shot.
I don’t need their permission.
I don’t want your faggotism.
Go suck a dk and I’ll be there to put your faggot azz teeth against the curb and kick your faggot abomination azz in the back of the head.
Can’t we just find a planet to send queers to.
I have a good planet.
Uranus.
Henry has a far reach.
Annnnnnd, still in NJ. Defending yourself here, still probably a felony in practice.
“The fact that an ultra-liberal court affirmed Americans’ right to openly carry a handgun is a huge win for all Americans, even if the court is dropping breadcrumbs they hope the U.S. Supreme Court picks up to ultimately restrict gun rights nationwide”
I say Fk you, whoever wrote this……These Fruit cakes in Black Robes don’t get to affirm anything as it relates to me and mine, let alone any American National….WTF….Make a Rule one way or the other, who gives a fk……
There can be NO DEBATE nor ANY Discussion about What my rights are, No Interpretation, No Statutes, No Codes, No Compromise ……BOR and Common Law…END…!!!! All else is tyranny…
This is AMERICA Jack…….And the day is approaching when you fks are gonna have to come play ball…
Like Koernke always says….Equal Opportunity Dying time….Tyrants…. at every level, all of you…. That includes all those who Take these things to court…..”Their Courts” ….Our courts Do not exist any more, because we live under fkn Tyranny…..
And you enforcers of tyranny, no matter how good you think you are, every last one of you have a choice, either join the people and say no to enforcing tyranny, or Keep doing what you do…and then Bare the brunt of the peoples resistance to you… Oh, and guess what…You don’t get to just roll over us…you’ll have to start bringing out all your military toys….
Then you get to find out what a Real Gorilla War is…..It ain’t gonna be a shooting gallery like the Middle east, where you get to Whoop it up after a few hundred yard sniper kill or some imbalanced firefight with air support… All while saying you are protecting America and Freedom…Fk Heads…
Your going to have to earn your blood…..Costume wearing faggots…. STOP VIOLATING THE PEOPLES BILL OF RIGHTS……You are the Criminals, You are the Red Coats…
Is the weight and sound of Our chains telling us anything….!
Very nice of them, but we really didn’t need the ninth circuit to tell us that.
Whats next?
Are they going to declare 2+2=4?
Or that up is in fact up.
Maybe they.will decree that they have no lawful purpose and that the government is no longer a lawful entity?
Or that israhell is actually Palestine no matter.who prints what.on a map
Oh and notice they only state open carry.
Lol
I’ll carry a gun any where any way i choose. except federal buildings. That is why i dont go to them even when asked
AINT NO PANEL OF UNREPENTANT “JEWS’ GONNA TELL ME HOW TO LIVE MY LIFE.
HOW WE EVER ALLOWED KIKE FILTH TO GET THIS FAR TOTALLY AMAZES ME, AND IS A TESTAMENT TO THE TENACITY OF THE KHAZAR AND THE POWER OF LIES.