No longer will American citizens be required to leave their right to self-defense at the gates of a national park," says Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) chair Alan Gottlieb.
It's risky to read too much into the tone and tenor of questions during oral arguments before the high court, but a majority of the nine justices seemed to signal support for an interpretation of the Second Amendment protecting an individual right to keep and bear arms.
``It's better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it,'' said Joe Waldron, executive director of the Washington State-based Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms.
Even gun advocates support this version of the bill, including Snohomish County Sheriff Rick Bart and Alan Gottlieb, chairman of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms.
Constitution which reads: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.