It will be a long time until all the dust settles in the wake of today's historic Supreme Court decision regarding the Second Amendment. The news media are focusing on how the decision affirms the Second Amendment as an individual right, not a group right.

The NRA also focused on this aspect of individual right vs. group right in its brief announcement today:

It looks to be a phenomal day for gun owners and District of Columbia residents. 

Our Founding Fathers wrote this as an individual right, they intended it to be an individual right, and the Court is now acknowledging that right. 

Although the Court's affirmation of the Second Amendment as an individual right is certainly very welcome and highly significant, there are some troubling aspects of the Court's decision.

Here's a link to a very early analysis of the Supreme Court's DC vs. Heller decision from Steve Bonta as quoted in the JBSForum.org today by Alan Scholl. According to Bonta:

I'm sure you've heard about the Supreme Court's "landmark" ruling today on the Second Amendment. LewRockwell.com, etc., are in full celebration mode, for example. However, the majority decision (much of which I've already read) effectively destroys the Second Amendment....

Finally, Gun Owners of America (GOA) has issued a much more upbeat analysis of today's decision: 

Gun Owners of America today celebrated what amounts to a generally good decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in the DC v. Heller case.

In a YouTube video statement released today, GOA even stated that they are "celebrating a great victory at the Supreme Court."

Added to this blog on July 2:

Since I posted this blog on June 26, Warren Mass has written an excellent in-depth analysis of the Supreme Court's DC v. Heller decision in "Supreme Court Ruling Affirms Second Amendment."

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