Will Grigg's Liberty Minute

December 18, 2007

Not long ago, the US Supreme Court agreed to hear the case challenging the constitutionality of Washington, DC's ultra-strict gun control laws.

The case, Columbia vs. Heller, may require the Court to deliver a definitive decision as to whether the Second Amendment protects an individual right to armed self-defense, or a so-called collective right on the part of states to maintain militias.

This point has been made before, but it bears repeating: The Constitution does not empower the federal government to disarm the sovereign people. This would be true even in the absence of the Second Amendment. The chief value of that amendment may be that it prohibits the use of other federal powers ? such as regulating interstate commerce ? in ways that would ?infringe? the right to keep and bear arms.

The fact that the Founders included explicit protection of that right testifies that they considered it indispensable to a free society.

Let us stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.