As we prepare for the upcoming McDonald vs Chicago case we have to ask ourselves, where do we draw the line between State/City rights, and our Constitutional rights? For folks like us its easy… as simple as “keep your damn dirty hands off my guns Mr. Mayor”. However, with the rapidly expanding density of social neo-urbanites, rabid “progressivism”, and a twist of “enlightened intellectuals” in the media piling loads fabricated fecal matter on top, the issue has grown rather complex…

1776: In the old days of the new United States of America, it was simple; free citizens could keep and bear arms. They didn’t need permission or a license from a local magistrate, they weren’t asked to “keep it in the closet” (or in their pants for that matter), and they sure as hell didn’t have to worry about registration schemes and other circus acts that infringe on their ability to defend themselves. You see back then, the government actually trusted individual citizens to be in charge of their own fate, and held them solely responsible for their own actions. His highness, King George III may not have approved such measures for his loyal subjects. But then again, thats why we decided to make our own darned country in the first place.

Well, we had a good thing going for a couple of decades while the guys that started it all were still in power. Over the generations though, their successors permitted this basic right to be gradually eroded, with each passing season removing another unnoticeable layer. Every succeeding generation allowed for the seemingly minuscule revocation of but a fraction of this right. Over the decades and centuries to pass, we have slowly developed an endless labyrinth of regulation, legislation, bureaucracy, and now, downright forbiddance. If that does not define the very essence and spirit of the word “infringed”, then what does?

2010: With the new decade comes a new hope for new intelligence. We now know without a doubt that gun control does not work. We now know that criminals, terrorists, and psychopaths have always acquired and used weapons against us despite the laws (or little paper signs for that matter). We now know without a doubt that our government and our police cannot protect us from everything, nor are they obligated to. We now know that inanimate objects such as guns are not capable of being good or bad. Today we know that individuals must take responsibility for their own safety, and they must also take responsibility for their own actions. We can no longer punish all of society for the sins of a few. And, we also know that allowing the citizens in our communities to defend themselves does not cause more crime.

In 2008, Dick Heller stood up to the DC municipal mafia, and allowed us to be legally defined as individuals bearing individual rights. Now, we wait again in hopes that the SCOTUS will undo a bit more of the destruction that has been done.

Keep an eye on this one folks… it may be just the ticket we need to reverse the erosion of the past.