Opinion 4 Everything

December 17, 2004 in an opinion written for the U.S. Attorney General by the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Legal Council:
"The Second Amendment secures a right of individuals generally, not a right of States or a right restricted to persons serving in militias."

Pay attention to any high profile legal case today, watch any episode of Law & Order or just pay attention to the legal system and you will find countless people breaking the law and getting off on technicalities. You will find even more people who continually break the law and have legal teams, "Celebrity Attorneys," and even such organizations as the ACLU bending over backwards to protect the rights of the accused.

And I applaud them, people deserve to have their rights protected.

However, why doesn't the ACLU protect my Second Amendment Rights?

~I have the "right" to publish all the porn I want, even if children can get to it;
~I have the "right" to organize a Klan rally at my State capital building, even if someone there used my words as fuel to eventually commit a crime;
~I have a "right" to have any illegally-gathered-evidence thrown out of court, even if it proves that I killed 10 people;
~I have a "right" to talk about suicide even though you might use my words as advice on how to do it;
~You have a "right" to do what you want; but to protect that "right," I have the "right" to do what I want.

I have a right to own a gun, even though you might commit a crime with your gun.

You can not restrict my rights because I "might" commit a crime, and you can not restrict my rights because someone else commited a crime.