Today's Boston Globe has a story about the latest provocative billboard from Jon Rosenthal, the founder and chairman of Stop Handgun Violence. The image at right is a screenshot from their website, showing the organization's literally colorful use of the First Amendment, and the new 252-foot "gun show" billboard is being unveiled today.
For the record, the ACLU's position on gun control is that the right to bear arms is a collective right, and that regulation of individual gun ownership is therefore constitutional. That means that the ACLU disagrees with the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision in D.C. v. Heller.
In other words, if the intent had been for there to be no regulation of guns at all, the Second Amendment could simply have said, "The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." It actually says:
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
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You may not like the decision that the Supreme Court made. However, there are now clear contradictions in MA law concerning gun control and the requirements that are imposed upon someone that merely wants to store a gun in his place of residence. Shouldn't the ACLU be concerned about state law that is openly defying a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court?
I'm sorry. I didn't mean to post my previous comment anonymously.
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