The #2A safeguards our God-given right to self-defense in AND outside our homes-It's not a 2d class right. That’s why I'm leading 23 states urging #SCOTUS to take up the most important #2A case since Heller & uphold the #2A's original meaning @NRA
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Right now several states including NY require individuals who wish to protect themselves outside the home to “demonstrate a special need for self protection.” This is a sham and antithetical to the right of self-defense protected by the #2A & should be declared unconstitutional.
In 2008, #SCOTUS recognized the original meaning of #2A includes the right of law-abiding citizens to keep & bear weapons in self-defense. Many lower Cts ignored the orig meaning & adopted an “interest-balancing” test that allows states to encroach on this fundamental right.
These courts favor a sense of security over liberty. This is backwards - liberty ensures security.
The Founding generation knew this all too well& they enshrined the #2A right to bear arms in the Constitution to keep it safe, not just from kings but legislatures as well. @NRAILA
The Founding generation knew this all too well& they enshrined the #2A right to bear arms in the Constitution to keep it safe, not just from kings but legislatures as well. @NRAILA
The Founders viewed the right to self-defense as a natural right that was inalienable and predated the Constitution that is necessary for our system of “ordered liberty” #2A
The #2A protects the “core lawful purpose of self-defense. Permitting government actors to determine who has “good cause” to exercise a fundamental right contradicts the #2A’s original public meaning.
The right to bear arms predates our written Constitution & the #2A’s text indicates it is not a right GRANTED by the Constitution but rather one PROTECTED by it.
The God-given right is one that was acknowledged in our English legal tradition by way of the Glorious Revolution giving way to the English Bill of Rights, granting individuals a right to have arms for their own defense. #2A
With this historical understanding, the Founders enshrined the right of self-defense in the Constitutions. After the Constitution was adopted - states also adopted strong protections in their own constitutions. #2A
Some state legislatures have fallen short over the years in defending the right to bear arms in self defense. Many states adopted laws to deny free blacks access to firearms. Racial disarmament was not limited to slave states. #2A
#SCOTUS should grant cert and restore the original meaning of #2A’s right to bear arms. Heller was a victory but since then there have been a series of inconsistent lower court rulings which is why this case is so critical.
In Heller, #SCOTUS held the Const “guarantees the INDIVIDUAL right to possessing carry weapons in case of confrontation.” Since #2A is applied to states, many lower cts have misinterpreted Heller limiting the #2A to keeping arms leaving the right to bear arms largely illusory
Some cts have upheld licensing regimes requiring citizens to have “a reason to possess the weapon for a lawful purpose”-misinterpreting Heller. We urge #SCOTUS to uphold the Const & protect #2A & our right to self-defense. This is an important cause for individual lliberty
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