Defining the right to bear arms

The Supreme Court has agreed to wade into the debate over gun control, said The New York Times, but the language of the Second Amendment clearly says that individuals don't have an unqualified right to bear arms. There's no doubt the Constitution says Ame

What happened

The Supreme Court on Tuesday said it would hear a challenge to Washington, D.C.’s, handgun ban—one of the strictest in the nation. The justices will have the opportunity to decide exactly what the Second Amendment means, and whether everyone—and not just members of a state militia—has the right to bear arms. (The Atanta Journal-Constitution)

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