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NEWS FROM THE SECOND AMENDMENT SISTERS
900 R.R. 620 S
Suite C101, Box 228
Austin, TX 78734
World Wide Web: http://www.2asisters.org
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 6/26/2009
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For additional information contact:
Mrs. Mari Thompson, SAS Founder
Phone: 877-271-6216
E-mail: mthompson@2asisters.org
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Lakeway, TX – SAS Applauds the Supreme Court Decision in DC vs Heller

Marinelle Thompson, President and Founder, states “Second Amendment Sisters applauds the ruling by the Supreme Court today that the Second Amendment declares the right to bear arms to be a personal right, and not a collective right. We will now continue to work toward removing all laws that impinge this right for law-abiding citizens. We have the right to protect our lives and the lives of our loved ones, and we have the right to the tools to protect that right. This is an enormous start on our journey to completely restore our rights as citizens of the United States of America.”

Justice Scalia, in his opinion, wrote: “what is not debatable is that it is not the role of this Court to pronounce the Second Amendment extinct.”

He also stated “We know of no other enumerated constitutional right whose core protection has been subjected to a freestanding “interest-balancing” approach. The very enumeration of the right takes out of the hands of government—even the Third Branch of Government—the power to decide on a case-by-case basis whether the right is really worth insisting upon. A constitutional guarantee subject to future judges’ assessments of its usefulness is no constitutional guarantee at all. Constitutional rights are enshrined with the scope they were understood to have when the people adopted them, whether or not future legislatures or (yes) even future judges think that scope too broad.”

“We are thrilled with today’s Supreme Court decision striking down the Washington, D.C. ban on useable guns for self-defense in homes. It opens the door for the removal of draconian gun bans all over the United States, gun bans that serve only to embolden criminals and make their jobs easier, while disarming honest, decent American gun owners and making them easy prey. It is simple for officials to pass feel-good anti-gun laws, laws that affect only the law-abiding, while ignoring the real problem: the criminal. Now Washington, D.C. authorities will be forced to confront the REAL source of crime: the criminal.” said Nancy First, SAS Board Member and South Dakota State Coordinator. “We should see the crime rate in Washington, D.C. plummet, as it does in other cities where citizens are allowed to defend themselves with firearms.”

“Self Defense is a basic human right, protected, not granted by the Second Amendment. Today’s Supreme Court decision has said so! The Second Amendment protects the individual right! Now a glimmer of light appears to the many hearts that have been fighting a deception about our freedom and our founding principles. A deception that has especially affected women and children in egregiously harmful ways. The fight has just begun. We look forward to the challenges ahead. Now that I (we) have this decision as part of our ‘arms,’ we are renewed and confident of our success in educating women about their right to self defense, the importance of a free people always to be armed, and the role of the Second Amendment in protecting that right.” - Lynne Roberts, SAS Board Member and Massachusetts State Coordinator.

Today is truly an historic day for the Second Amendment.

Click here to read the opinion

Second Amendment Sisters is a grassroots organization dedicated to preserving the individual basic human right to self-defense.

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