Supreme Court tenuously upholds the individual right to keep and bear arms

In a 5-4 ruling yesterday the Supreme Court decided that the Second Amendment confers an individual right to keep and bear arms, albeit a tenuous one. While historic considering the high court has never been forced to make such a definitive ruling on the Second Amendment before; the decision was far from crystal clear, and it left open a cornucopia of means by which firearms can still be restricted.

While gun control enthusiasts have long been comforted by the notion that the Second Amendment applied only to "the Militia"; this notion was inconsistent with the historical context in which the Bill of Rights was crafted. The militia language was meant to be a side note; a mere commentary--without any force of law--to ensure that the contemporary reader of the day would understand that the citizen militias would not be disbanded in favor of a centrally-controlled national army. This was intended to assure the citizens of the new republic that the rights they had just struggled to secure would not be trampled upon by their new form of government.

Fast forward over two-hundred years and that's exactly what's happening. The federal government is grabbing power and imposing itself upon the populace at an accelerated rate. While the high court's decision lends some small degree of support to the rights of We The People; it serves as only one of many stepping stones we need to traverse on the road to taking back this country and restoring the respect for and spirit of the Constitution of the United States of America.