The United States Supreme Court issued a 5-4 ruling today that the Second Amendment does, in fact, mean what it says -- even in Chicago -- and guarantees an individual right to keep and bear arms. The case at hand was McDonald v. City of Chicago, in which the plaintiff sought to overturn Chicago's blanket ban on handguns.
The Amendment reads, "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." The Chicago ban clearly infringed on that right.
That didn't stop the Chicago Tribune from spinning in its headline, "Supreme Court extends gun rights." The Tribune lamented that the Court's decision had "extended the reach of the 2nd Amendment as a nationwide protection." Such language, of course, suggests that the Court invented the right out of thin air -- sort of like abortion on demand. Unlike abortion, however, the right to keep and bear arms is actually written down in the Constitution, in plain view for all to see.
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