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The Second Amendment Is One Supreme Court Justice from Repeal
nationalreview.com ^ | Oct. 6, 2015 | David French

Posted on 10/07/2015 6:26:33 AM PDT by PROCON


In August, my colleague Charlie Cooke wrote an epic rant daring the Left to stop talking about repealing the Second Amendment and start doing it. Introduce the repeal to Congress, work it through the states, and tell the American people what you want to do — take from them a fundamental, enumerated right from the Bill of Rights. As Charlie eloquently outlines, repealing the Second Amendment is an impossible task. Even worse for the Left, it’s political suicide.

But if the Supreme Court’s decision in Obergefell v. Hodges teaches us anything, it’s that the age of judicial supremacy means that five justices can amend the Constitution far more efficiently than Congress and the state legislatures. And right now there are clearly four Supreme Court justices who are committed to the absurd view that the operative clause of the Second Amendment — “the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed” — doesn’t actually mean “the right of the people” and therefore doesn’t encompass an individual right to own a weapon, even for self-defense. This view defies history yet is received, conventional wisdom on the judicial Left, in much the same way that it’s received, conventional wisdom that the Constitution actually protects rights to abortion and gay marriage.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Government; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; banglist; scotus
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To: PROCON

SCOTUS can’t repeal anything in the Constitution. Any repeal would have to take place through a Constitutional Convention.


61 posted on 10/07/2015 7:14:39 AM PDT by rfreedom4u (Rick Chollett for President!)
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To: NonValueAdded

A convention of states my be the only solution to save the republic... unless of course the SCOTUS deems even that “unConstitutional”. Despots have few limits in their lust for tyranny.


62 posted on 10/07/2015 7:17:59 AM PDT by FiddlePig
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To: Yashcheritsiy

I read somewhere recently that, if you go by hunting permits issued and assume each is a single armed citizen, just Ohio would have the 10th largest standing army in the world.


63 posted on 10/07/2015 7:19:15 AM PDT by chrisser (This space for rent.)
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To: PROCON
From copyright law "fair use" doctrine to the Second amendment, the entire U.S. government is out of control.

Just an aside, when was the last time a justice was assassinated?

5.56mm

64 posted on 10/07/2015 7:21:24 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: Arm_Bears

The Supreme Court can’t repeal an amendment, but they can render an interpretation of an amendment which could change how the related laws and amendment itself are interpreted and administered.


65 posted on 10/07/2015 7:21:39 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Turbo Pig

Worshipping Caesar would be immoral. However, not registering a gun if Caesar demanded it? That’s not so morally clear cut to me as Christian.

BTW, I’m only expressing my own thoughts on the matter and not advocating for or against any other position. I’m simply saying it (gun registration or confiscation) would not be a simple issue, clear cut issue for me. It would also be a deadly serious decision of course.


66 posted on 10/07/2015 7:23:43 AM PDT by CitizenUSA (Proverbs 14:34 Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.)
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To: CitizenUSA

render unto Caesar —

bo is not Caesar.

The Constitution is.


67 posted on 10/07/2015 7:25:07 AM PDT by Scrambler Bob (Using 4th keyboard due to wearing out the "/" and "s" on the previous 3)
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To: deoetdoctrinae










68 posted on 10/07/2015 7:28:26 AM PDT by Stand Watch Listen (When the going gets tough--the Low Information President Obie from Nairobi goes golfing/fundraising)
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To: CitizenUSA

I don’t really see any spiritual issue here with not registering or turning them in.

The Scriptures tell us that we obey the laws when they do not directly conflict with Scripture itself (Rom. 13:1, Titus 3:1, I Pet. 2:13-14, etc.)

HOWEVER.

In our system, what is the highest earthly law? It is the Constitution. The Constitution is what it is- Not what the SCOTUS says it is, for the Constitution itself nowhere gives SCOTUS any prerogative to interpretively overturn its provisions, or even to engage in any kind of “judicial review.”

Ergo, whenever any act of government goes contrary to the Constitution (which we the people are to decide through our states, since that was the scenario for ratification), it is null and void.

No SCOTUS decision that “interprets” the 2nd amendment as a collective right only has any standing. No federal law which seeks to restrict or overturn, in practice if not in word, the right to keep in bear arms has any standing.

If the Christian wants to obey the law, then they first and foremost obey the Constitution. All other powers are subsidiary to it, are instituted by it, and therefore have no legal standing to overrule it.

Obeying the Constitution, in our system, is fulfilling Rom. 13:1, etc. We obey it - not any subsidiary power which conflicts with it.


69 posted on 10/07/2015 7:31:47 AM PDT by Yashcheritsiy (It's time to repeal and replace the GOP)
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To: PROCON; basil

Or confused by all the Trumpites hating on NR.


70 posted on 10/07/2015 7:34:21 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: Stand Watch Listen

Your consolidated snapshot in graphic format represents pretty much most things I believe on the RKBA topic. Excellent!

71 posted on 10/07/2015 7:35:51 AM PDT by Blue Jays (Rock Hard, Ride Free)
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To: basil

It is a RINO lead conspiracy with a few rogue conservative writers between the brain farts of Atheists like George Will and Charles C. I. M. A. BRIT Cooke.


72 posted on 10/07/2015 7:38:02 AM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: PROCON

LINK TO 30 MINUTE RADIO RANT (mainly on islam, gun control, etc.) OF 10/7/2015
You can access the show by clicking on this link to the Gradick Communications site: http://www.gradickcommunications.com/
Go to “PODCAST” and click on the link to the show. You can play it from the site or download it to your computer and play it there.
HOW MUCH TROUBLE ARE WE IN? CAN YOU SAY “EXISTENTIAL”??


73 posted on 10/07/2015 7:39:21 AM PDT by Dick Bachert (This entire "administration" has been a series of Reischstag Fires. We know how that turned out!)
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To: Arm_Bears

Agree, but...where in our Constitution does it say the SCOTUS has authority to unilaterally force government healthcare upon us and our required support of homomarriage?


74 posted on 10/07/2015 7:45:11 AM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: PROCON

While there is a lot of competition out there, I believe this one rates as dumbest headline of the day.


75 posted on 10/07/2015 7:46:14 AM PDT by iontheball
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To: kennedy

“Be afraid. Be very afraid.”

Be prepared. Be very prepared.


76 posted on 10/07/2015 7:50:51 AM PDT by PLMerite (The Revolution...will not be kind.)
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To: rbg81

“What they would do instead is ban ammunition.”

Without ammunition guns are not arms, but cleverly shaped pieces of metal, wood, and/or plastic. The right to bear arms includes the ammo that is part of them.


77 posted on 10/07/2015 7:56:24 AM PDT by bk1000 (A clear conscience is a sure sign of a poor memory)
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To: Uncle Miltie
There aren’t enough Secret Service employees to defend a decision like that.

That is why the dems want to bring in UN troops to police us along with the huge population of illegals. This invasion has a purpose.

I do not think dems have thought this through or know who Americans are, power and insulation from the population has left them clueless.... The consequences will be devastating.

78 posted on 10/07/2015 8:02:56 AM PDT by Lady Heron
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To: Blue Jays




79 posted on 10/07/2015 8:10:48 AM PDT by Stand Watch Listen (When the going gets tough--the Low Information President Obie from Nairobi goes golfing/fundraising)
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To: Uncle Miltie

Never surrender your guns to authorities without a Supreme Court decree requiring surrender.

Never surrender your guns to authorities with a Supreme Court decree requiring surrender.


80 posted on 10/07/2015 8:23:13 AM PDT by jeffersondem
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