District of Columbia v. Heller Supreme Court Second Amendment Decision Hailed by Black Activists

National Center ^ | 6-26-08

[Natchez Hawk]

Of course. No group is monolithic, and black people are able to surmise who are the disproportionate victims of violent crime.

[jim35]

“...also says if a license is required IT MUST BE issued to a law abiding citizen. “

I had no idea that this was included. I feel such a great sense of elation. This is HUGH!! (I’m series)

[GoldenPup]

Good decision. What is scary is that four of the “Bimbo” judges on the Supreme Court dissented.

[higgmeister]

Besides violating the Second Amendment, D.C.'s gun ban is a violation of the fundamental rationale of law. In The Law, noted political theorist Frederic Bastiat wrote: 'It is evident, then, that the proper purpose of law is to use the power of its collective force to stop this fatal tendency to plunder instead of to work. All the measures of the law should protect property and punish plunder.' D.C. promotes the opposite, effectively protecting the plunderer and punishing the property owner.

A Black Activist quoting Bastiat, I love it!

I love this beautiful woman and the conservative members of the SCOTUS!

[bobjam]

I never thought of this issue from a civil rights stand point, but consider this: many of the cities with the most extreme anti-gun ownership laws have very large black populations. Today’s decision paves the way for millions of urban black Americans, who too often are defenseless against agressive criminals, to defend themselves in the same manner as suburban and rural white Americans.

[calex59]

We also have Obama on another flip/flop. He stated before that he was for the DC gun ban, but today, just minutes after the decision was handed down, said he was all for the SCOTUS decision. What a liar and a putz. I guess he doesn’t think we know his record on gun control and the fact he supported the DC gun ban. Easy to prove and should be jumped on by McCain.

[chainsaw]

Second Amendment Decision Hailed by Black Activists

In Chicago, anyway, Mayor Daley will use a thousand reasons to keep the guns out of the peoples hands. What he is actually doing is keeping the guns out of the hands of the law abiding blacks in that city. His gun ban has been a dismal failure that has cost many innocent lives.

[chainsaw]

Frightening that this was a 5:4 vote.

Affirmative action was a 5:4 decision also.

[SJackson]

bobjam: I never thought of this issue from a civil rights stand point, but consider this: many of the cities with the most extreme anti-gun ownership laws have very large black populations.

chainsaw: In Chicago, anyway, Mayor Daley will use a thousand reasons to keep the guns out of the peoples hands.

While I wouldn't call it a civil rights issue, unless we're talking about all our civil rights, it does put blacks at risk disproportionately.

I’m reminded of Michelle’s comment last year that Barak could get killed going for gas a couple miles from their home.

She’s absolutely right, as far as she goes.

What she leaves out is that I could get killed getting gas two miles for her home, in fact I might be at greater risk being white in a crime ridden black neighborhood.

And she leaves out the fact that the perp is likely to be black, the neighborhood being black.

And ignoring his Secret Service detail, being in Chicago, and Barak and I being law abiding citizens, neither of us would be armed, thus at the mercy of an armed criminal. Who by definition doesn’t obey the law.

Of course there are many, many places in Chicago I simply won’t go for any reason, thank’s to Daley’s gun laws. Which he'll creatively try to keep in place.

[DuncanWaring]