June 28/article

While the 2008 District of Columbia v. Heller case afirmed that the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution protects an individual's right to possess a firearm for private use (and was the first Supreme Court case in US history to directly address whether the right to keep and bear arms is a right of individuals or a collective right that applies only to state-regulated militias), there was still one nagging loophole left: does it just apply Federally (because DC is a Federal jurisdiction), or does it apply to the states as well? Gun grabbers, naturally, were frantically insisting that this was just some weird, quirky Federal law thing that only bound the Federal government, and that states where they held influence were still free to bugger about with the rights of their citizens as they pleased. They were wrong. Again. As usual. Exactly two years and two days after the Heller decision, the US Supreme Court finally tied up that bothersome loose end after Chicago resident Otis McDonald had to drag America's new gun-grabbing capitol all the way to Washington so that SCOTUS could explain to them, likely in small words, that the Second Amendment is, in fact, incorporated per the Fourteenth Amendment's due process clause. In other words: "No, little gun grabbers, you don't get to just ignore the Second Amendment; any more than some states could ignore the Thirteenth Amendment (which is why the Fourteenth was passed in the first damn place - in response to the "Black Codes" that southern states had passed in the wake of the abolition of slavery in the US). The Bill of Rights applies everywhere, dickwads." Get it through your thick little heads.