The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Americans have a constitutional right to keep guns in their homes for self-defense, the justices' first major pronouncement on gun control in U.S. history. The court's 5-4 ruling struck down the District of Columbia's 32-year-old ban on handguns as incompatible with gun rights under the Second Amendment. The decision went further than even the Bush administration wanted, but probably leaves most firearms restrictions intact.

Second Amendment – Right to keep and bear arms.
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.

What part of that is unclear? Only in the minds of those that want to take the power of government out of the hands of the people is there confusion. The Right to keep and bear arms was put into the bill of rights right after the freedom of speech for a reason. The Right to keep and bear arms is not really to allow us to protect ourselves from each other but to allow us to protect ourselves from the government when it oversteps and abuses it power.

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