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A Bull's-Eye For The Supreme Court
IBD Editorials ^ | June 28, 2010 | Investors Business Daily staff

Posted on 06/28/2010 5:16:43 PM PDT by Kaslin

Second Amendment: In the "living Constitution" era, the Supreme Court rediscovers original intent and rightly rules that the right to bear arms applies to all Americans just as the rest of the Bill of Rights does.

It's hard to conceive how the justices could have decided otherwise. But by the narrowest of margins — 5-4 — they have reaffirmed that keeping and bearing arms is an inalienable and individual right like speech and religion, and that it applies to all individuals as the Founding Fathers intended.

Why anyone thinks the Second Amendment does not apply to all Americans is a mystery to us. Governments have powers; individuals have rights. The Bill of Rights was an enumeration of those individual rights — from freedom of speech to freedom of religion to the right to bear arms — that are to be protected from the intrusion of an oppressive government.

Now the Supreme Court agrees.

Writing for the court in a case involving restrictive firearms laws in Chicago and one of its suburbs, Justice Samuel Alito said the Second Amendment right "applies equally to the federal government and the states." Two years ago, in Heller vs. District of Columbia, the court ruled that gun ownership was an individual right but left unclear its scope.

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1 posted on 06/28/2010 5:16:46 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

A 5-4 vote on the Second Amendment is no victory-it is downright scary..


2 posted on 06/28/2010 5:22:04 PM PDT by cardinal4 (Barack Obama- 21st Century Edsel)
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To: Kaslin
This is far from over, we will soon have a justice that will help make confetti out of the constitution.
3 posted on 06/28/2010 5:22:55 PM PDT by boomop1
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To: Kaslin; Extremely Extreme Extremist; bamahead; neverdem; Biggirl; ExTexasRedhead

How can any justice rule against the 2nd. Amendment? It floors me. Unfortunately, we don’t have the numbers to stop Elena Kagan, barring an unexpected development.


4 posted on 06/28/2010 5:26:15 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (Obama's more worried about Israelis building houses than he is about Islamists building atomic bombs)
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To: Kaslin

Does anyone know where to find the dissents? I’d like to see what passes for logic on the left these days.


5 posted on 06/28/2010 5:26:51 PM PDT by Wingy (Don't blame me. I voted for the chick. I hope to do so again.)
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To: boomop1
Are you totally stupid or just a half assed idiot? The woman you are speaking of will be replacing another liberal, in fact the most liberal justice now sitting on the court. The mix won't change and no justice can change a ruling on their own. It will still be 5/4 if the bitch from hell gets approved, hopefully she won't, but if not her then some other liberal.

I am surprised at how many FReepers think this one justice will change the mix of the court, I didn't realize there were so many out right stupid FReepers.

6 posted on 06/28/2010 5:30:37 PM PDT by calex59
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To: calex59
I am surprised at how many FReepers think this one justice will change the mix of the court ...

I've read those comments as well -- but to be fair, its replacing an old Godless commie with a young Godless commie - and that's not good.

7 posted on 06/28/2010 5:33:55 PM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: tubebender

ping


8 posted on 06/28/2010 5:34:55 PM PDT by raptor22 (The truth will set us free)
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To: calex59
Crawl back in your hole nitwit, she be there for 30 years we will never gain dominance ass wipe....
9 posted on 06/28/2010 5:35:10 PM PDT by boomop1
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To: boomop1
She will NOT change the mix, she is replacing a frickin' liberal, that was my point, something you seem too frickin' stupid to comprehend. We need to make sure we elect conservatives who will nominate conservative justices to replace the 5 we have on the bench now.

I suggest you do a little reading, maybe your brain will benefit, dimwitted bas****.

10 posted on 06/28/2010 5:50:10 PM PDT by calex59
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To: Kaslin

Thomas hit the bullseye. Scalia, Alito and Roberts were close but no cigar.


11 posted on 06/28/2010 5:53:34 PM PDT by jwalsh07
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To: Jeremiah Jr; null and void
Aldebaran is the Greek Omma Boos, Latin Oculus Tauri, and the early English Bull's Eye. "Bull's-eye" is what we call "the centre of a target, which usually carries the highest score", and "a precise or highly effective achievement"

The great "red giant", war-like Aldebaran is one of the four "Guardians of Heaven" - sentinels watching over other stars. It formed one of the four royal stars of Persia as "Watcher of the East".

These were also called archangel stars; this star Aldebaran was Michael - Military Commander of the Heavenly Host. The others were; Gabriel (Fomalhaut) Watcher of the South; Raphael (Regulus) Watcher of the North; Uriel (Antares) Watcher of the West. At one time they marked the two Equinoxes and two Solstices. Aldebaran marked the zero Aries point in 3044 BC, Antares marked zero Libra 3052 BC, Fomalhaut marked zero Capricorn, 2582 BC, Regulus marked zero Cancer 2345 BC. [The angel associations come from Eric Morse, The Living Stars, p.35. Allen's explanation of these four stars on p.256 of Star Names]

These four stars have been characterized as Horses, reflected both in the famed Four Horsemen of Apocalypse (Revelations 6) and Chariot Horses in the Book of Zechariah - [Dr Eric Morse, The Living Stars, p.56.]
Aldebaran

The name Aldebaran is the traditional Arabic (الدبران al-dabarān (ad-dabarān)) name which literally translates as "the follower". The name probably refers to the way this bright star follows the Pleiades star cluster in its nightly journey across the sky.[3]
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Compare Aldebaran.

12 posted on 06/28/2010 5:57:46 PM PDT by Ezekiel (The Obama-nation began with the Inauguration of Desolation.)
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To: harpseal; TexasCowboy; nunya bidness; AAABEST; Travis McGee; Squantos; wku man; SLB; ...
Click the Gadsden flag for pro-gun resources!
13 posted on 06/28/2010 6:01:47 PM PDT by Joe Brower (Sheep have three speeds: "graze", "stampede" and "cower".)
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To: cardinal4
A 5-4 vote on the Second Amendment is no victory-it is downright scary..

Downright scary is wondering how a Harriet Myers would have voted
14 posted on 06/28/2010 6:16:56 PM PDT by uncbob
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To: cardinal4
http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/09pdf/08-1521.pdf

240 pages, including concurrences and dissents. I think Thomas’ opinion that states the basis should be the Privileges & Immunities clause is the most well-reasoned of the decisions.

15 posted on 06/28/2010 6:17:36 PM PDT by M1928A1 Thompson ("A policeman's job is only easy in a police state!")
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To: Wingy
Does anyone know where to find the dissents? I’d like to see what passes for logic on the left these days.

Not quite what you're after, but you might find this to be of interest.

16 posted on 06/28/2010 6:44:05 PM PDT by archy (Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam)
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To: Kaslin
Why anyone thinks the Second Amendment does not apply to all Americans is a mystery to us.

OK, here goes my try at it. The Court didn't argue this on 2nd Amendment grounds, and here is why...

When the Second Amendment was written, it absolutely did not apply to the states. The Bill of Rights was a guarantee that the federal government and only the federal government would not oppress the citizens' rights. To illustrate, the First bars establishment of an official religion. However, up through the 1820s, some states had established religions. Barron v. Baltimore upheld the restriction on the BoR to the fed. gov't in 1833.

This was not Alito's argument in the case. He looked at the 14th Amendment, which absolutely applies to the states. (The 14th has a sordid history toward ratification that makes anything Obama has done look like a child's game.) The 14th is the giant tunnel in the Constitution that brings prohibitions on the federal government to the states. This didn't happen till something like 1925, though, in Gitlow v. New York.

The 14th gives you due process rights. Actually, it gave former slaves due process rights, as it was intended. The Supreme Court has used this to give you "abortion rights" as well as now gun rights. Alito and Thomas were a bit crafty about it, though. They spoke in the decision about the due process rights of former slaves to own guns. If a former slave could own guns, how would it be fair to restrict you?

I read parts of the argument and I was dubious at first, but I think the reasonings of Alito and Thomas (his is a bit different) are interesting. Apparently Scalia had some disagreements, but I haven't read those.

From my perspective, being able to defend yourself is a matter of Natural Law, a God-given right. Any law which denies self-defense is itself illegal. I'm a strong believer in state and local rights, though. If a community wants to ban guns, should they be able to do so? Not by Natural Law, but I'm uncomfortable with federal involvement.

I'm a very staunch supporter of gun ownership with very few restrictions, but personal feelings should have nothing to do with the law. I need to read this case in more depth because the arguments are not simple, and the decision is very lengthy.

18 posted on 06/28/2010 7:07:16 PM PDT by ElectronVolt
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To: Kaslin
A fantastic result, only clouded by the fact that 4 Supreme Court Justices voted against a plain reading of the Constitution.

Good, but scary...

Subtle point - elections very much matter in this day and age...

19 posted on 06/28/2010 7:24:02 PM PDT by !1776!
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To: Wingy

“Does anyone know where to find the dissents?”

Easy, don’t even have to look it up - Ginsberg, Breyer, Stevens and Sotomayor. God bless Kennedy for doing the right thing as the swing voter. And pray that nothing happens to any of our constitutionalist justices or that any of them retire before ‘12.

Was watching Anderson Cooper while ago during a commercial of Greta (have to check out the “enemy” every once in awhile :-). The leftist author/legal commentator Jeffrey Toobin was on, fairly sputtering to AC about the decision today of the “conservative arm” of the SCOTUS. They were both shocked (shocked, I tell you!) that what was once “always” an oddball issue - the 2nd amendment - until Reagan, is now considered a guaranteed right and that from now on, any bans on gun ownership will be pretty much out of the question.

Oh,the humanity - tsk tsk.


20 posted on 06/28/2010 8:33:50 PM PDT by llandres (I'd rather be alive and bankrupt than dead and solvent)
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