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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 11/26/07
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For additional information contact:
Genie Jennings, SAS Spokesperson
Phone: 877-271-6216
E-mail: saspress@2asisters.org
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Lakeway, TX –
SAS ANNOUNCES AMICUS BRIEF IN HELLER
Second
Amendment Sisters is pleased and proud to announce that we are joining
Southeastern Legal Foundation, Inc. in filing an amicus brief in
the Supreme Court hearing of Washington, D.C. v. Heller.
Southeastern Legal Foundation, Inc., founded in 1976, is a national
constitutional public interest law firm and policy center that has
participated in more than a dozen successful U.S. Supreme Court
cases in its 31-year history (www.southeasternlegal.org).
SAS
has watched this case closely, since it was originally prepared
as Parker v. Washington, D.C. The successful outcome of
that case in the lower court was heartening to all who believe in
the Second Amendment and in the basic human right of self-defense.
We are particularly interested in the benefits of firearms in self-defense
for women, the elderly, and the disabled.
The city’s 1975 handgun
ban has made it extremely difficult for law-abiding citizens to
defend themselves and their families within the confines of their
own domiciles. If this prohibitive law is found unconstitutional,
for the first time in three decades residents of the nation’s capital
will be allowed to have an effective means of protection within
their homes.
This case does not address
carrying a firearm, either concealed or openly, on the streets of
the city. It does not address the legality of the city to limit
the use of firearms in the city. This case addresses the constitutionality
of the city to override the Second Amendment rights of individuals
to keep and bear arms.
Second Amendment Sisters
believes that Self defense is a basic human right™. We have a right
to life; we have a right to defend that life and the lives of those
around us; we have a right to the means to do so.
If we are denied the
means to defend our life, we are effectively denied our right to
life itself. For over thirty years the citizens of Washington, D.C.
have been denied the right to a means of protecting their lives,
and thereby denied their basic human right to life.
We are confident in
a positive outcome to the Supreme Court hearing. The rights of individuals
are important to all judges.
Second
Amendment Sisters is a grassroots organization dedicated to preserving
the individual basic human right to self-defense.
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