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== Individual or Collective Right? ==
== Individual or Collective Right? ==
For several decades, the lower federal courts had interpreted the Second Amendment as protecting merely a collective right of state militias.<ref>http://www.davekopel.com/2A/LawRev/35finalpartone.htm</ref> However, the US Supreme Court has always called it an individual right. The 2008 case [[District of Columbia v. Heller]] ruled 5-4 that the Second Amendment protects an individual right.
For several decades, the lower federal courts had interpreted the Second Amendment as protecting merely a collective right of state militias.<ref>http://www.davekopel.com/2A/LawRev/35finalpartone.htm</ref> However, the US Supreme Court has always called it an individual right. The 2008 case [[District of Columbia v. Heller]] ruled 5-4 that the Second Amendment protects an individual right.
== The Second Amendment Actually says ==
The right to bears arm for the militia (national guard) and not just any one to bear arms.
==Where the Second Amendment comes from==
==Where the Second Amendment comes from==