A Pot Conviction Shouldn’t Negate Your Right to Armed Self Defense

“Ten years ago, when the Supreme Court recognized that the Second Amendment protects the right to keep guns for self-defense, it said ‘nothing in our opinion should be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons.’ Yet if the right to protect oneself against aggressors is “fundamental,” as the Court said it has long been considered, if it is ‘the primary law of nature,’ as William Blackstone called it, and ‘paramount to all positive forms of government,’ as Alexander Hamilton thought, it cannot be treated so lightly that proximity to a bag of dried vegetable matter leaves a young pregnant woman defenseless in her own home.?” – Jacob Sullum in Pot Prohibition Makes Self-Defense Illegal [via reason.com]