Montana: Have guns, will secede

It seems as though the good people of Montana are finally getting fed up with the liberal pantywaists in D.C. who are trying to destroy the second amendment to our constitution. (District of Columbia v. Heller)

Thirty-nine of Montana’s elected officials recently signed a resolution which says that if the Supreme Court rules against the individual right of gun ownership, the United States would be in breach of contract, giving their state grounds for leaving the union.

In 1889, when Montana signed its contract of statehood with the United States, one of the conditions was that the federal government agreed that individuals had the right to keep and bear arms. [From the Montana Constitution of 1889: "Right to bear arms. The right of any person to keep or bear arms in defense of his own home, person, and property, or in aid of the civil power when thereto legally summoned, shall not be called in question, but nothing herein contained shall be held to permit the carrying of concealed weapons."] One of the dimwitted arguments in the Heller case is that firearm ownership is just a state or collective right, not a right of the individual. This leans weakly upon the argument that the rights spelled in the second amendment refer solely to the right of the states to build and maintain militia.

Montana Secretary of State Brad Johnson had this to say, “The U.S. would do well to keep its contractual promises to the states that the Second Amendment secures an individual right now as it did upon execution of the statehood contract.” Good for you, Brad.