Posted on 04/30/2016 10:18:21 AM PDT by rktman
Edited on 04/30/2016 12:59:05 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
Blacks shoot each other. Guns to blame.
Try it, Dorkbamaholes.
No, more bad laws, bad ideas are not inevitable.
What I hope is inevitable is the gradual education of the American public - that more gun control does not make us safer. Actually both history (experiences of other Countries, and more than a few cities and States) and common sense tells us more "gun control" actually makes us more vulnerable and increases crime.
No surprised Obama wants to mandate a universal “off” switch.
Reporters should be called the stupid class.
Supreme Court could issue a “definitive” ruling on gun control in the near future. Clinton didn’t define “definitive,” let alone “gun control
The definitive law on gun control was issued by our Founders in the Constitution. Everything else since has just been political bullshit!
As gun sales set new records month after month, some leftists still cling to the delusion that they can do anything to stop Americans from exercising their 2nd Amendment rights.
The only hope they have is stacking the courts, but that will not reduce the number of guns already in the hands of people.
This newspaper is trying to rewrite history to achieve an ideological goal. The dissent in Heller was weak nonsense. The dissenting judges voted on nothing but ideology and the court did not ignore elements of the 2nd amendment. This newspaper is writing what it wished was in the ruling and would have been had the dark side won. The only way Heller could have gone the liberal’s way was to reject the Constitution and 200+ years of American history and court history.
Remember, precedents unchallenged are weak precedents if they are precedents at all. A wealth of historical writing, not to omit the rights as codified into many state constitutions and the previous Virginia rights, is clear in supporting the Heller decision. It was 5-4 due to 4 immoral judges not doing their job for America—it should have been 9-0 support for the 2nd amendment and it should have affirmed all arms suited for contemporary armed defense.
Hey stevens, “well-regulated militia” = The People.
Web Hubble’s kid is off her meds again.
Hey stevens, “well-regulated militia” = The People.
Do you know what a well regulated militia was?
It’s pretty simple, the ‘regulations’ were the steps in how to load, aim and fire a musket or any other muzzle loading weapon at the time the constitution was written in. Members of the Armies or Europe and America were also known as ‘Regulars’ because of their frequent practice sessions in using their firearms.
That meant that a ‘well regulated militia’ was one that practiced using their weapons and were totally comfortable with their usage.
Today we would say that the owners and/or users of modern day firearms need to be comfortable with the usage of their weapons and the care and handling that goes along with that.
As long as Trump follows through and nominates a decent Supreme Court pick, things should be fine.
The idea that the Second Amendment exists to protect the government’s right to raise troops is like saying that the First Amendment exists to protect the Government Printing Office.
More news media regulations are inevitable, too, by the same token.
If we get a liberal court, kiss the first and second amendments goodbye.
For years, socialists have touted the “inevitability” of socialism. And they see it with such idealism that they can no longer see its glaring and repeated failures.
In effect, it remains nothing more than superstitious nonsense, sustained by endless rationalizations.
It is no longer able to supplant reality in the minds of the people, so with a petulance like other cults, if they can’t have what they want, then they want to destroy the world.
A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country. James Madison
Arm while you can, and molon labe!
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