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A Slippery Slope on Guns (Hurl, you will)
Truthdig / The Washington Post ^
| October 5, 2009
| Marie Cocco
Posted on 10/07/2009 2:04:58 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
carrying todays high-powered weapons ... Are guns getting more powerful like cpu's or something? Maybe I'm missing something, should I upgrade my AR-15 to a new hybrid?
To: 2ndDivisionVet
The gun lobby, if it wins in the Supreme Court, is prepared to challenge every gun control law enacted at any level of governmentI'm just so sick of that phrase. The Brady's, proven liars and idiots, are a "non-profit non-partisan group trying to address gun violence" or something like that, while the 80% of the public who can actually read the Constitution, are a "gun lobby".
Idiots. Liars. Charlatans.
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posted on
10/07/2009 3:20:01 PM PDT
by
Still Thinking
(If ignorance is bliss, liberals must be ecstatic!)
To: Sudetenland
Scalia's writings in the Heller case were...inadequate in their defense of the RTKBA.Justices often negotiate with one another and alter draft opinions in order to gain a swing vote or two. There are those who believe what he wrote was the strongest he could word it and still get Kennedy on board. Losing Heller and its finding that the Second does indeed protect a right of individual citizens (Duh!) would have been far worse than the weaselly opinion that emerged.
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posted on
10/07/2009 3:26:54 PM PDT
by
Still Thinking
(If ignorance is bliss, liberals must be ecstatic!)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
These nitwits somehow ignore the obvious fact that mayhem minded murderers don't care what the law says and will own and carry guns no matter what law is passed.
Arm everybody and watch the civility rate climb.
To: Sudetenland
I fear you are right. I don't believe even the conservative supremes have a clear understanding of the intent of our founding fathers. I believe that men like Scalia are just as subject to the pressures of politics as any member of congress is.I do agree in the sense that I think the four generally viewed as conservative can tend toward the authoritarian if the issue is right. And I certainly didn't mean my other post as a full-throated defense of Scalia's conservative creds (see Raich). The rationale of some of his pro-government opinions and dissents strikes me as "but what if the police don't like it?" as if that were a legal argument. And he's viewed as the leading originalist on the court! [ hangs head in shame ] AFAIC, Justice Thomas is far more logically consistent and finds what he finds regardless of whose ox it is about to get gored.
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posted on
10/07/2009 3:55:52 PM PDT
by
Still Thinking
(If ignorance is bliss, liberals must be ecstatic!)
To: Jacquerie
It's amazing how the left will say that the 2nd amendment is not meant for today, yet if you show them that the 1st is freedom of speach and the protection of print by their logic then TV and Radio and Internet should not have any 1st amendment rights since they are not spoken of in the constitution.
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posted on
10/07/2009 3:57:26 PM PDT
by
guitarplayer1953
(Romak 7.62X54MM, AK47 7.62X39MM, LARGO 9X23MM, HAPINESS IS A WARM GUN BANG BANG YEA YEA)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
The gun lobby, if it wins in the Supreme Court, is prepared to challenge every gun control law enacted at any level of government.
One can only hope.
"Free at last! " --MLK
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posted on
10/07/2009 5:34:47 PM PDT
by
Lee N. Field
(An armed society is a polite society. So keep your soi-disant "prophets" off my lawn.)
To: Sudetenland
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posted on
10/07/2009 6:19:37 PM PDT
by
bravotu
(Have a Nice Day !)
To: SkyDancer
I don’t think you’ll see everyone just handing their guns in!
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posted on
10/07/2009 6:22:55 PM PDT
by
SWAMPSNIPER
(THE SECOND AMENDMENT, A MATTER OF FACT, NOT A MATTER OF OPINION)
To: SWAMPSNIPER
I think that’s what worries the politicians ... the minute they somehow circumvent the Constitution (gun czar?) and declare guns illegal they’ll go underground and the second Revolution will start(?)
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posted on
10/07/2009 6:31:06 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
('Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not..' ~ Thomas Jefferson)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
The gun lobby, if it wins in the Supreme Court, is prepared to challenge every gun control law enacted at any level of government. Long overdue cuckoo.
I mean Cocco.
5.56mm
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posted on
10/07/2009 6:32:51 PM PDT
by
M Kehoe
To: SkyDancer
I don’t think they can dig deep enough!
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posted on
10/07/2009 6:39:27 PM PDT
by
SWAMPSNIPER
(THE SECOND AMENDMENT, A MATTER OF FACT, NOT A MATTER OF OPINION)
To: Still Thinking
Agree with you about Thomas. As far as I can tell he is the best...most consistently originalist...of all of the conservatives on the court.
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posted on
10/07/2009 6:39:57 PM PDT
by
Sudetenland
(Slow to anger but terrible in vengence...such is the character of the American people.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Ha ha. The author forgot about the holocaust in New Hampshire. Afterall that is the stylish crutch.
To: SWAMPSNIPER
Actually I was talking with my dad on how to hide our guns in case ... we have almost ten acres of forest. Best thing he said was to hide them up in the trees - firs, hemlock, cedar ...
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posted on
10/07/2009 9:30:05 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
('Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not..' ~ Thomas Jefferson)
To: SkyDancer
I've decided not to hide anything, it will just postpone the inevitable. If things go to the confiscation point it will be time to settle the issue once and for all, win or lose.
I can't really see the government voluntarily changing it's mind and reinstating any rights once they've been taken away.
I am well aware that George Bush was willing to sign a new AWB, we can depend on no one but ourselves.
The GOP hierarchy has decided to play the democracy game and abandon the republic, we can't allow this to go on, and still honor the oath that many of us are sworn to.
The GOP can never betray me again, I do not count on them for anything!
BUAIDH NO BAS!
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posted on
10/07/2009 9:53:22 PM PDT
by
SWAMPSNIPER
(THE SECOND AMENDMENT, A MATTER OF FACT, NOT A MATTER OF OPINION)
To: SkyDancer
....But will that past the smell test or in other words, the Surpremes Court test?
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posted on
10/08/2009 4:49:28 AM PDT
by
Biggirl
(I believe in THE BOOK that promises VICTORY OVER THE WORLD!:)=^..^==^..^==^..^==^..^=)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
"Hurl, you will"
Okay Yoda.
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posted on
10/08/2009 7:23:39 AM PDT
by
Sudetenland
(Slow to anger but terrible in vengence...such is the character of the American people.)
To: SWAMPSNIPER
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posted on
10/08/2009 8:01:50 AM PDT
by
SkyDancer
('Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not..' ~ Thomas Jefferson)
To: NativeSon
Maybe I'm missing something, should I upgrade my AR-15 to a new hybrid?Save Ma Gaia. Switch to a battery or fuel cell operated EBR. I guess that would be a L(ess)EBR.
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posted on
10/08/2009 8:47:44 AM PDT
by
Still Thinking
(If ignorance is bliss, liberals must be ecstatic!)
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