NEWS
FROM THE SECOND AMENDMENT SISTERS
900 R.R. 620 S
Suite C101, Box 228
Lakeway, TX 78734
World Wide Web: http://www.2asisters.org
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 06/26/2008
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For additional information contact:
Marinelle Thompson, President & Founder
Phone: 877-271-6216
E-mail: mthompson@2asisters.org
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Lakeway, TX – SAS Applauds the Supreme Court Decision
in DC vs Heller
Marinelle Thompson, President and Founder,
states “Second Amendment Sisters applauds the ruling by the Supreme
Court today that the Second Amendment declares the right to bear
arms to be a personal right, and not a collective right. We will
now continue to work toward removing all laws that impinge this
right for law-abiding citizens. We have the right to protect our
lives and the lives of our loved ones, and we have the right to
the tools to protect that right. This is an enormous start on
our journey to completely restore our rights as citizens of the
United States of America.”
Justice Scalia, in his opinion, wrote:
“what is not debatable is that it is not the role of this Court
to pronounce the Second Amendment extinct.”
He also stated “We know of no other enumerated
constitutional right whose core protection has been subjected
to a freestanding “interest-balancing” approach. The very enumeration
of the right takes out of the hands of government—even the Third
Branch of Government—the power to decide on a case-by-case basis
whether the right is really worth insisting upon. A constitutional
guarantee subject to future judges’ assessments of its usefulness
is no constitutional guarantee at all. Constitutional rights are
enshrined with the scope they were understood to have when the
people adopted them, whether or not future legislatures or (yes)
even future judges think that scope too broad.”
“We are thrilled with today’s Supreme Court
decision striking down the Washington, D.C. ban on useable guns
for self-defense in homes. It opens the door for the removal of
draconian gun bans all over the United States, gun bans that serve
only to embolden criminals and make their jobs easier, while disarming
honest, decent American gun owners and making them easy prey.
It is simple for officials to pass feel-good anti-gun laws, laws
that affect only the law-abiding, while ignoring the real problem:
the criminal. Now Washington, D.C. authorities will be forced
to confront the REAL source of crime: the criminal.” said Nancy
First, SAS Board Member and South Dakota State Coordinator. “We
should see the crime rate in Washington, D.C. plummet, as it does
in other cities where citizens are allowed to defend themselves
with firearms.”
“Self Defense is a basic human right, protected,
not granted by the Second Amendment. Today’s Supreme Court decision
has said so! The Second Amendment protects the individual right!
Now a glimmer of light appears to the many hearts that have been
fighting a deception about our freedom and our founding principles.
A deception that has especially affected women and children in
egregiously harmful ways. The fight has just begun. We look forward
to the challenges ahead. Now that I (we) have this decision as
part of our ‘arms,’ we are renewed and confident of our success
in educating women about their right to self defense, the importance
of a free people always to be armed, and the role of the Second
Amendment in protecting that right.” - Lynne Roberts, SAS Board
Member and Massachusetts State Coordinator.
Today is truly an historic day for the
Second Amendment.
Click
here to read the opinion
Second
Amendment Sisters is a grassroots organization dedicated to preserving
the individual basic human right to self-defense.
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