Posted on 01/31/2016 5:18:29 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The Second Amendment to the Constitution states: "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." Debate about the Constitutionality of the individual right to bear arms was settled when the US Supreme Court in District of Columbia et al. v Heller stated that:
The Second Amendment protects an individual right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia, and to use that arm for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home.
The Second Amendment is more than the right to bear arms. It represents a way of life and a culture in America. People who take advantage of their Second Amendment right are generally very responsible gun owners. In my experience, they take gun safety very seriously for two main reasons: 1) they are law abiding citizens and 2) they recognize the consequences both individually and collectively when guns are abused.
What if the Constitution Changed?
There are two avenues for the "right to bear arms" to be eviscerated, and to be clear I am not advocating for that in this article. The first is by changing the Constitution, specifically repealing the Second Amendment. While changing the Constitution and repealing an Amendment has happened in the past with the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment (Prohibition) in the Twenty-first Amendment, I don't think this is going to happen. To amend the Constitution we need to satisfy all of the requirements of Article V in the Constitution, which states...
(Excerpt) Read more at huffingtonpost.com ...
Live Free or Die.
We should be so lucky. Two sides? Try hundreds. Like Lebanon or Yugoslavia times 100.
This is an idiotic article. I don’t care if it was written by someone on “our” side. There are some things that shouldn’t be mused about. Like whether a second civil war would be fun. Or whether cannibalism is cool. Repealing the 2A is a topic that decent people avoid musing about due to the all too predictable tragic results.
What difference does it make? The criminal class in DC (Read: Legislative Branch-Executive Branch-Judicial Branch) that take an oath to support and defend the Constitution don’t follow it anyway.
It is just clickbait.
He does not make any serious proposals, just asks people to send him twitter messages.
The country will split if the left continues its assault on the rights of citizens. I have no doubt about that. I will not be around to see it and I prefer it were done absent violence but I doubt that would be true.
That'll be reserved for another article, eh?
Read the preamble. They are absolute, if they are not, they mean nothing.
Exactly. The problem with the liberals' stance (well, there are so many, but let's consider this one) is that they would be a basically unarmed group trying to forcefully disarm the armed group. It is not going to end well, for them.
The Preamble to the Constitution does not have legal standing, it is not law. The Constitution is law. As such the Constitution and the Amendments can be changed. In some cases it will only take a decision by the Supreme Court to change the meaning of virtually anything in the Constitution. A future court may decide that the Heller decision was wrong and decide that the Second Amendment to the Constitution allows fire arms only to those in well regulated militias. That then would be the law of the land.
> “Who won Heller for us?”
A narrow majority of one person on the Supreme Court. Keep that in mind with the next election. ANY Demoncrat President after 2016 will change that balance and the 2nd Amendment will be taken away.
Only one answer; all politicians can go to hell, GOD GAVE ME THE RIGHT TO PROTECT MYSELF AND THE THINGS THAT I LOVE.
Not sure what you mean. The five justices in favor were Thomas, Scalia, Alito, Kennedy and Roberts.
It is not selective at all.
You must take into the consideration of the vernacular— the accepted, specific speech of the day.
Take for example the West Side Story song, “I feel pretty.” It has a line that states the singer is pretty, and witty, and gay. In today context, that would seem odd. In the context of the time, it makes perfect sense.
We do not update our language in the constitution. We must understand the meaning of words within their context.
History has shown uniformed services do very poorly in that type of conflict.
Becoming an instant believer will not provide them with the skills, practice, prior service experience, nor the determination to prevail.
Or disciplined.
By Ted Cruz
John Roberts should be a quick confirm.
In 1995, while clerking for Chief Justice William Rehnquist, I and my two fellow law clerks asked the chief whom he thought was the best Supreme Court lawyer currently practicing. The chief replied, with a twinkle in his eye, that he thought he could probably get a majority of his colleagues to agree that John Roberts was the best Supreme Court advocate in the nation. This week, the president announced his intention to nominate John Roberts to be a Supreme Court justice.
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In November of 2000, I had spent the past year and half as domestic-policy adviser on the Bush campaign, and was part of the team assembling the lawyers to help litigate Bush v. Gore. We needed the very best lawyers in the country, and I called John and asked him to help. Within hours, he was on a plane to Florida.
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As an individual, John Roberts is undoubtedly a principled conservative, as is the president who appointed him. He clerked for Chief Justice Rehnquist, worked in the Reagan White House, and served as the principal deputy solicitor general in President George H.W. Bush’s Justice Department. But, as a jurist, Judge Roberts’s approach will be that of his entire career: carefully, faithfully applying the Constitution and legal precedent.
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/214989/right-stuff-ted-cruz
It would provoke Civil War II
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