Current Events vs. Founding Documents

Entry 27                                                                             Submitted by: Mark Musselman

Current Event
From: USA Today on 10/08/2008

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — City officials have agreed to return hundreds of firearms that police officers confiscated in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, part of a deal to resolve a lawsuit filed by gun lobbying groups.

The settlement agreement filed Tuesday in federal court calls for the National Rifle Association and Second Amendment Foundation to drop their case if the city follows a plan for returning guns to owners who had them seized by police after the Aug. 29, 2005, hurricane.

VS.

City of New Orleans vs. gun rights of citizens.

Founding Document

The US constitution: First Amendment:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

The US Constitution: The second amendment

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.

We the People:

Note the wording of the second amendment. Unlike the first amendment, which only limits Congress, the second amendment protects the people from all levels of government.