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Is the Second Amendment a second-class right?

Bruen on June 23, 2022, the Supreme Court has announced that the Second Amendment is not a second-class right. The core argument of the decision is that gun rights are to be treated the same as other hallowed rights like the freedom of speech or freedom of religion recognized in the First Amendm 2d ago Miami Herald

Is the Second Amendment “No law”?

But only the idiosyncratic Justices Hugo L. Black and William O. Douglas insisted that “no law” meant “no law” where the First Amendment was concerned, and that was decades ago. A majority of the court has never taken that view. The Second Amendment, moreover, is devoid of the absolutist “no law” language that the NRA and its acolytes promote.

What did the Heller court say about the Second Amendment?

at 15. Consider what the Heller Court actually said. True, the Court spent many pages in Heller discussing the text and historical context of the Second Amendment. 554 U. S., at 579–619. But that is not surprising because the Heller Court was asked to answer the preliminary question whether the Second Amendment right to “bear Arms” en-

Why is the Second Amendment important?

The Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects your right to keep and bear arms not so that you can grant the government consent, but so that, if necessary, you can act on your dissent! John Locke writes that free men are obligated to dissolve tyrannical governments.