The Supreme Court has finally ruled on the Second Amendment case they have been mulling over for months now.  They have in fact ruled as I thought they would in favor of gun owners over the District of Columbia’s ban.  This is no big shock considering the makeup of the current court.  What may come as a shock to those of you, who know me a liberal, is I am in favor of their ruling.

The Second Amendment doesn’t exist so people can hunt.  It doesn’t even exist so you can protect your home and property.  The Second Amendment was written and has remained in the US Constitution for one reason alone.  The Second Amendment is the reasoning by which the revolutionaries justified their war of independence.  The Second Amendment only protects our right of rebellion.

If you don’t think we have the right to rebel, let me point out the Civil War.  Had we not the protected right of rebellion every member of the Confederate Army would have been guilty of treason.  Not a single person involved in the Civil War was ever tried much less convicted of it.  The right of the people to rebel remains intact to this day.  Before you go out and decide to take on the government remember they reserve the right to put down any rebellion.

What chaps my hide though was driving home today I was listening to radio when a fear monger was on the radio saying how this was going to make his job harder.  While I generally agree with the goals of PeaceOholics, when it comes to learning to live together, they are dead wrong with this stance.  Doing what is right should never enter into the picture when talking about how hard or easy your job is.
We have given up way too many of our liberties of late in the name of making security easier.  I am glad the court has gone against recent precedence putting freedom head of so called security.  Of course they might have thought differently had the remembered rebellions and revolutions aren’t started by the conservative members of society, but rather us radical liberals.