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| − | {{ | + | <noinclude>== Featured Article ==</noinclude> |
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| − | | | + | |title= Heller decision |
| − | | | + | |image= Dick Heller.jpg |
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| + | |more= (Click here to find out more) | ||
| + | |summary= If you're an American gun owner, then June 26, 2008 was a very good day indeed for you. | ||
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| + | There can be little doubt that the case of the District of Columbia v. Dick Heller is, and will remain for some time, the most important SCOTUS ruling on the subject of [[gun rights]] in [[American]] history. | ||
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| + | "Gun control" advocates had long argued that the [[Second Amendment to the United States Constitution]] was a state right and not an individual one, but in this landmark legal case, the Supreme Court of the United States held that the Second Amendment protects an '''individual's right''' to possess a [[firearm]] for private use. Let's say that again, just because it sounds so good: | ||
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| + | '''The RIGHT belongs to the INDIVIDUAL CITIZEN and NOT to the government!''' | ||
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| + | For the first time in its history, the Supreme Court of United States directly addressed whether the right to keep and bear arms is a right of individuals or a collective right that applies only to state-regulated militias. | ||
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| + | To the utter shock, awe, horror, dismay and (God only knows how many) other reactions of [[gun-grabbers]] across the nation, the Court found in favor of the side of true rights and true liberty — the side of the individual.}} | ||
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| + | ! style="background:#9BCD9B; border:1px solid green"| <div style="float:right"><small><nowiki>[</nowiki>[[June 26|more]]<nowiki>]</nowiki></small></div>What else happened today | ||
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| + | * [[1857]] — The first investiture of the Victoria Cross in Hyde Park, London. | ||
| + | * [[1917]] — The first [[U.S.]] troops arrive in France to fight alongside [[Britain]], [[France]], [[Italy]], and [[Russia]] against [[Germany]], and [[Austria]]-[[Hungary]] in [[World War I]]. | ||
| + | * [[1990]] — [[Canadian]] Justice Minister [[Kim Campbell]] introduces [[gun control]] legislation banning "automatic [[assault weapons]];" with a 5 year jail term to anyone convicted of converting a gun to [[full auto]]. | ||
| + | * [[2004]] — Two days before a federal election, [[Canadian]] Liberal PM Paul Martin dropped all fees for [[Canadian gun registry|transferring firearms]]. Canadian gun owners weren't fooled and, sure enough, 18 months later, the Liberals would start promising a [[handgun ban]]. | ||
| + | * [[2008]] — The US Supreme Court, in the case of [[DC v. Heller]], struck down the 30 year-old Washington D.C. gun ban and held that the Second Amendment protects an individual's right to possess a firearm for private use. | ||
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| + | ==Today in pictures== | ||
| + | <gallery> | ||
| + | File:Dick Heller.jpg|[[2008]]: [[Dick Heller]] outside the U.S. Supreme Court | ||
| + | </gallery> | ||
| + | ===Picture of the day=== | ||
| + | {{POTD:June 26}} | ||
| + | [[category:Dates]]</noinclude> | ||
