We will hear argument today in case 07 290 district of Columbia versus Heller.

Hey everyone, this is Leon Nefak, host of Fiasco and co-creator of Slow Burn.

On this week's episode of 5-4, Peter, Riannan and Michael are talking about guns.

For years, most scholars believed that the Second Amendment only protected the right to bear arms in the context of a well-regulated militia.

But in 2008, in the case of DC V Heller, the Supreme Court ruled that the Second Amendment was actually a much broader, protecting the right of every individual to own guns.

The Court really opened up a whole new chapter in constitutional law, revised the well-understood meaning of the Second Amendment.

There are some people that think that guns kill people as if they jump out of the dresser drawer, walk out the front door and start shooting at people.

This is 5-4, a podcast about how much the Supreme Court sucks.

Welcome to 5-4, where we dissect and analyze the Supreme Court cases that have eaten away at the fabric of American society, like Malds in our collective closet.

I am Peter, Twitter's the law boy, I'm here with Michael.

Hey everybody.

And Riannan.

Hello.

And today we are covering DC V Heller.

Buh-wa.

Relax.

The case that granted Americans an individual right to bear arms under the Constitution.

If you asked most Americans how long the Constitution has protected the individuals right to possess firearms, I imagine most would say something like since the country was founded.

The actual answer is since 2008, when the Court flipped over a century of jurisprudence on its head in one of the most bizarre decisions in Supreme Court history.

And usually we spend the majority of our time on this podcast dismantling the reasoning of the Court.

And we're going to do that.

And this decision is hacky and lazy and muddled and full of incomplete logic.

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