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In reply to the discussion: Can you guess what all this talk, talk, talk about gun control is doing? [View all]Savannahmann
(3,891 posts)Did the Supreme Court review the case in 1983 in which Morton Grove Illinois banned guns? No. Why would they not accept the appeal if there was in fact, and in law, an individual right to keep arms? By refusing to hear the appeal, they let the Appeals Court ruling stand, which said that Morton Grove was well within their rights to ban guns. That is a precedent. That is a ruling. That is the simple fact that there was NO individual right. Heller should never have gone as far as it did, by that Precedent. Yet the Justices found an individual right out of thin air. There isn't one in the Constitution. There isn't one in case law. But there is NOW.
Before Heller, collective right. After Heller, individual right. Now, is that statement true? Or are you busy polishing your AK-47 and unable to think it through for yourself?