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To: rktman
Unless and until SCOTUS rules that permitless carry is permissible in all 57 states, I'll abide by the laws in place. SCOTUS said in Heller:

2. Like most rights, the Second Amendment right is not unlimited. It is not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose: For example, concealed weapons prohibitions have been upheld under the Amendment or state analogues. The Court’s opinion should not be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms. Miller’s holding that the sorts of weapons protected are those “in common use at the time” finds support in the historical tradition of prohibiting the carrying of dangerous and unusual weapons. Pp. 54–56.

So how you or I would like the Second Amendment to be interpreted, SCOTUS has the final say.

7 posted on 12/05/2016 8:54:05 AM PST by Yo-Yo ( Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: Yo-Yo

“So how you or I would like the Second Amendment to be interpreted, SCOTUS has the final say.”

That’s not how our government is supposed to work. We have three branches of government, and if one of them goes mental the other two are supposed to correct it.


16 posted on 12/05/2016 9:19:51 AM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: Yo-Yo
Unless and until SCOTUS rules that permitless carry is permissible in all 57 states, I'll abide by the laws in place.

ISWYDT

19 posted on 12/05/2016 9:54:26 AM PST by canalabamian ("The same things win, that always won..." Coach Paul W. Bryant)
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To: Yo-Yo

If States can interpret the Second Amendment, why can’t they interpret the First and, say, Thirteenth Amendments?

“Shall not be infringed” is an absolute, subject only to due process for cause on an individual basis.


21 posted on 12/05/2016 10:52:35 AM PST by PLMerite (Lord, let me die fighting lions. Amen.)
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