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Old April 20, 2009, 01:56 PM   #5
carguychris
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Much good in there, specifically this on Page 29 of the PDF.
Quote:
12 We therefore conclude that the right to keep and bear arms is “deeply rooted in this Nation’s history and tradition.” Colonial revolutionaries, the Founders, and a host of commentators and lawmakers living during the first one hundred years of the Republic all insisted on the fundamental nature of the right. It has long been regarded as the “true palladium of liberty.” Colonists relied on it to assert and to win their independence, and the victorious Union sought to prevent a recalcitrant South from abridging it less than a century later. The crucial role this deeply rooted right has played in our birth and history compels us to recognize that it is indeed fundamental, that it is necessary to the Anglo-American conception of ordered liberty that we have inherited.17 We are therefore persuaded that the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment incorporates the Second Amendment and applies it against the states and local governments.18
{emphasis mine}

The decision ultimately rejects Nordyke's attempt to overturn the county's gun ban at the fairgrounds by concluding that the county has a compelling reason to prohibit firearms in public gathering places, and that such a ban "...does not directly impede the efficacy of self-defense or limit self-defense in the home." (Page 31)

RKBA diehards may be upset by this, but the fact remains that this decision incorporates the Second Amendment, and that's big. Real big.
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