Another Loss
Another judge has written an opinion stating the second amendment doesn’t doesn’t secure an individual right to arms:
In a 64-page opinion, Walton ruled that the Second Amendment is not a broad-based right of gun ownership.
“the Second Amendment does not confer an individual a right to possess firearms. Rather, the Amendment’s objective is to ensure the vitality of state militias,” Walton wrote.
He went on to say that the amendment was designed to protect the citizens against a potentially oppressive federal government.
He also ruled that the Second Amendment does not apply to the district because it was intended to protect state citizens, and the district is not a state.
Of course, I expected this in DC. I also have to ask: Where are our state militias? Judges have ruled that Governors don’t control the national guard but the feds do. Where is it?
Oh, that’s right, it’s listed in USC Title 10, Sec 311: The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States …
