Joyous update June 2008!
The Supreme Court made the right ruling!
Our 2nd Amendment rights are safe for now with the recent five to four vote of the Supreme Court judges, but don't for a minute think that liberals are not going to continue to find ways to revisit the issue if they get a majority of leftist judges on the supreme court.  Mean while however they will try every legislative trick possible to restrict 2nd Amendment rights.  We may not have a conservative presidential candidate running in 08, but McCain has promised to nominate only conservative judges whereas Mr. "change" and "we can do it" (what and how - nobody knows) Marxist-Socialist Obama will certainly appoint liberal judges.  Because there will likely be three Supreme Court Judges retiring during the next presidential administration, it is imperative that Obama NOT be the next president!

There should be no question that the court ruling is correct in what our forefathers meant when they formulated the 2nd Amendment.

George Washington clearly stated:  "A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, including their own government."

That being said, already liberals, predominately democrats, are trying to restrict ownership and possession of personal firearms by "we the people" to 
single-shot revolvers and rifles as they call for bans on semi-automatic weapon ownership by private citizens.  In the light of George Washington's statement and the political arena and time during which the 2nd Amendment was written, it is only logical to conclude that "we the people" have the right to own and have ammunition for the same sort of firearms that are available to the government!  In George Washington's day equal weaponry would have been muskets and Gatling guns, both of which private citizens owned and used if necessary in defense of their lives and the lives of their loved ones as well as against "any who might attempt to abuse them including their own government".  Theoretically then, today's private citizens, if they could afford to buy them, should be able to have machine-guns, grenade launchers, tanks and fighter planes parked in their front yards and battle ships in their swimming pools!  

Oh, I have already heard the faulty logic even on Fox News when a panel member exposed his reasoning for forcing firearm restrictions on the American people; he cited Columbine!  Somehow the idiot thinks that by restricting law-abiding citizens including faculty members and senior students that have concealed weapons permits from carrying them on campus would decrease the number of shootings!  Not only are people that have that think like him mistaken, they obviously don't know or are ignoring the facts:  Some may sound trite, but they are: (1) If guns were outlawed, only bad guys would have them.  (2)  People that have concealed weapons permits are extremely unlikely to use a firearm in the commission of a felony and nationwide records prove it! (3) If some of the faculty members and senior students had been armed during the Columbine massacre, the shooter may have been stopped before killing anyone or more than one or two people! (4) If the "bad guys" knew that the "good guys" didn't have guns, they'd have nothing to fear and be more brazen in their crimes than they already are. (5) Law enforcement cannot be everywhere at once and usually arrive on scene too late to prevent bloodshed!  Finally, as history has proven, governments that know that its people are armed are not likely to attempt to rob them of their constitutional rights and freedoms; that's why the motives of any in government are suspect when they attempt to restrict private possession of firearms, and that includes supreme court judges that the congress should stop from legislating from the bench!  

The bigger picture as I see it is that this anti-gun issue is just one more step in the movement toward establishing an American Union.  Washington needs to be more concerned about the drug trafficking and related surge in violent crimes being committed by Mexicans that have been purposely allowed to flood our country through open borders - another planned step toward the formation of an American Union.

Note: I do not have anything against Mexicans or any other ethnic group immigrating to the United States LEGALLY, nor do I have a prejudice bone in my body toward any person based upon his race or creed. Personally I see every human being as soul and it doesn't matter what wrapper each soul is wearing when it comes into the world. What does matter is how each person impacts the quality of my life, my security, my wellbeing, and how he or she contributes or detracts from me, my family, my neighbors, my city, my state, or my country!

Stan