Reply #151: Was the issue expressly stated as one of self defense?

[TechBear_Seattle]

I won't have time to read through the opinion until this weekend.

The thrust of my question is that, during the 1999 WTO attacks (of the police against the citizenry) in Seattle, the mayor used his "emergency powers" to make it a criminal offense to carry a gas mask. It struck me then that, if we have a constitutional right to take protective measures against a tyrannical government, gas masks and related passive protective gear should be just as constitutional as guns.