Former SCOTUS Justice Still Bitter About Heller Decision

By Tom Knighton

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The Heller decision is one of the most important decisions the Supreme Court has reached in the last century, if not of all time. While it didn’t go as far as I’d have liked for it to go, it established that the right to keep and bear arms was an individual right, a fact that still rankles gun control activists to this very day.

However, it wasn’t unanimous. Few decisions are, these days, but usually, those who come out on the losing side of a 5-4 decision let their written dissent be their final word on the issue.

For former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, though, he can’t let it lie.

Stevens was one of the dissenting justices on the Heller decision, and he’s been bitter about it ever since. He’s even gone so far as to suggest we should repeal the Second Amendment.

Now, he’s taking to the virtual pages of The Atlantic to describe how he was right, and five other Supreme Court justices were wrong.

District of Columbia v. Heller, which recognized an individual right to possess a firearm under the Constitution, is unquestionably the most clearly incorrect decision that the Supreme Court announced …Read the Rest

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