Dr. Bernd Wollschlaeger v. Governor of the State of Florida

I concur in the majority opinion, but I write separately to reiterate that our decision is about the First Amendment, not the Second. The Second Amendment “guarantee[s] the individual right to possess and carry weapons,” District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570, 592, 128 S.Ct. 2783 (2008), and enshrines a fundamental right “necessary to our system of ordered liberty” that applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment. McDonald v. City of Chicago, 561 U.S. 742, 778, 130 S.Ct. 3020, 177 L.Ed.2d 894 (2010). Our decision recognizes that protecting that fundamental right also serves a…