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SCOTUS Will Decide Whether the Right to Bear Arms Extends Beyond Your Doorstep
Jacob Sullum

Posted: Apr 28, 2021 12:01 AM

While it may seem obvious that the constitutional right to "keep and bear arms" extends beyond the home, federal courts have been debating that question for years. This week, the Supreme Court agreed to hear a case that could finally settle the issue, which the petitioners call "perhaps the single most important unresolved Second Amendment question."

The case involves a New York law that requires applicants for handgun carry licenses to show "proper cause," which according to state courts means more than a "generalized desire" to "protect one's person and property." Applicants must "demonstrate a special need for self-protection distinguishable from that of the general community," which in practice means that ordinary New Yorkers have no right to armed self-defense once they leave their homes.

The vast majority of states are less demanding, typically requiring that people who want to carry concealed handguns meet a shortlist of objective criteria. But several states have laws like New York's, enforcing subjective standards such as "good cause" (California), "proper purpose" (Massachusetts), "justifiable need" (New Jersey), "good and substantial reason" (Maryland), or a special "reason to fear injury" (Hawaii).

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Regardless on what they choose to decide, the right to bear arms extends way beyond the Supreme Court.

It is fundamental to humans to defend themselves whether they are at home or the supermarket.
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What the court will decide will be if the state will continue to wield unconstitutional authority to infringe on the right of the citizen to keep and bear arms.   

The Constitution already makes it plain that the right to keep and bear arms is a RIGHT, and hence does not stop at one's front door or one's car or the public streets.   

This is yet another real test of the Trump Judges, all three of whom utterly failed their responsibility to uphold election integrity as the Constitution requires.
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Regardless on what they choose to decide, the right to bear arms extends way beyond the Supreme Court.

It is fundamental to humans to defend themselves whether they are at home or the supermarket.

That's the truly funny thing about the right to keep and bear arms.   

It's the only right we inherited from our non-homo-sapiens predecessors.   Humans evolved the power of speech, and the invention of religion, and government, but before there were humans there were prehumans making and carrying weapons for their protection from animals and other prehumans.   

It's the most fundamental of all "human" rights.  It fueled our evolution itself.
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