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看wiki解释:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_of_Columbia_v._Heller
The court then held that the Second Amendment "protects an individual right to keep and bear arms", saying that the right was "premised on the private use of arms for activities such as hunting and self-defense, the latter being understood as resistance to either private lawlessness or the depredations of a tyrannical government (or a threat from abroad)." They also noted that though the right to bear arms also helped preserve the citizen militia, "the activities [the Amendment] protects are not limited to militia service, nor is an individual's enjoyment of the right contingent upon his or her continued or intermittent enrollment in the militia."
DC vs. Heller是里程碑一样的案件,必须正确理解。高院认定第二修正案“保护个人持有武器的权利”,这个权利适用于打猎也适用于自卫,但最重要的一句话在于:“自卫”的对象,包括个人犯罪(private lawlessness),也包括暴政(tyrannical government)和来自外国的威胁(threat from abroad)。
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