He Said/ He Said: Guns

We now know how the Supreme Court feels about guns (load ‘em up, move ‘em in to D.C.!), but how do the candidates feel about the right to bear arms? So glad you asked.
In a nutshell, McCain liked the Heller decision a lot, and Obama, surprisingly, liked it, with qualifications.  Not in a nutshell, [...]

Ban on Guns? SCOTUS says…not so much

  The Supreme Court today ruled that the 32-year-old ban on hand guns in Washington, D.C. is unconstitutional.   Although the decision in the case, called District of Columbia v. Heller, was 5 to 4, judicial experts have described the decision as generally  moderate.
The decision says that the Second Amendment applies to individuals, not just [...]

See Jane Learn: The Right to Bear Arms

In our occasional series,”See Jane Learn,” we acquaint ourselves with one of the Constitution’s 27 amendments, because the first step to fighting for your rights is knowing what they are.
We spoke freely about the First Amendment a few weeks ago. Today we move to the Second Amendment, always important, but [...]

See Jane Learn- Welcome to the Constitution!

Janes, have you ever watched an actor-playing-a-lunatic in a movie being taken into custody and yelling about his “rights”? Do we ever hear sane people in the movies yelling about their constitutional rights? Maybe we should.
CJP thinks the Constitution and its amendments are the most important and least read documents [...]