{"id":67489,"date":"2018-07-25T06:00:28","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T11:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=67489"},"modified":"2018-07-24T12:36:06","modified_gmt":"2018-07-24T17:36:06","slug":"shall-not-be-infringed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=67489","title":{"rendered":"Shall Not Be Infringed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A three judge panel of a Federal Circuit court &#8211; not just any federal circuit, but the\u00a0<em>Ninth<\/em> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-guns-court\/u-s-appeals-court-constitution-gives-right-to-carry-gun-in-public-idUSKBN1KE28C?feedType=RSS&amp;feedName=domesticNews&amp;utm_medium=Social&amp;utm_source=Twitter\">has ruled that the 2nd Amendment applies to law-abiding citizens carrying firearms for self-defense in public<\/a>, and has reversed a Hawaii federal district court ruling clamping pre-<em>Heller-<\/em>style restrictions on citizens in Hawaii:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The ruling issued by a three-judge panel on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, based in San Francisco, came a year after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to rule either way on the carrying of guns in public.<\/p>\n<p>Two of the three 9th Circuit judges voted to reverse a decision by the U.S. District Court in Hawaii that state officials did not infringe on the rights of George Young, the plaintiff, in twice denying him a permit to carry a gun outside.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do not take lightly the problem of gun violence,\u201d Judge Diarmuid O\u2019Scannlain wrote in Tuesday\u2019s ruling. \u201cBut, for better or for worse, the Second Amendment does protect a right to carry a firearm in public for self-defense.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kavanaugh can&#8217;t get on the bench soon enough.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>\n<div class=\"DPSlot_container StandardArticleBody_dp-slot-inline\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A three judge panel of a Federal Circuit court &#8211; not just any federal circuit, but the\u00a0Ninth &#8211; has ruled that the 2nd Amendment applies to law-abiding citizens carrying firearms for self-defense in public, and has reversed a Hawaii federal district court ruling clamping pre-Heller-style restrictions on citizens in Hawaii: The ruling issued by a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scotus","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67490,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67489\/revisions\/67490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}