{"id":2016,"date":"2022-05-27T10:43:24","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T10:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/05\/27\/an-individual-right-to-keep-and-bear-arms\/"},"modified":"2022-05-27T10:43:24","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T10:43:24","slug":"an-individual-right-to-keep-and-bear-arms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/05\/27\/an-individual-right-to-keep-and-bear-arms\/","title":{"rendered":"An INDIVIDUAL Right to Keep and Bear Arms"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n
>>In District of Columbia v. Heller the Supreme Court held in 2008 that the District\u2019s handgun ban violated the individual right to keep and bear arms. The opinion clarified that to \u201cbear arms\u201d means to \u201ccarry arms\u201d and has no exclusive militia context. And it rejected the view that the right could be dismissed or diminished by judge-made interest-balancing tests.<<<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n
 <\/div>\n
Of course it is an individual right: my right to life is my individual, not collective, right to life and said right entails my individual right to defend my individual life. And of course if I have the right to bear arms, then I have the right to be armed outside my domicile. Obviously, I have a greater need for self-defense outside my domicile than within it.<\/span><\/div>\n
 <\/div>\n
Will leftists say that this is now 'settled law'? Or will they say that the 2008 ruling can be overturned?  If they say the latter, will they also say that Roe v. Wade can be overturned?<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

>>In District of Columbia v. Heller the Supreme Court held in 2008 that the District\u2019s handgun ban violated the individual right to keep and bear arms. The opinion clarified that to \u201cbear arms\u201d means to \u201ccarry arms\u201d and has no exclusive militia context. And it rejected the view that the right could be dismissed or … Continue reading “An INDIVIDUAL Right to Keep and Bear Arms”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alcohol-tobacco-and-firearms","category-u-s-constitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}