Posted on 10/09/2019 1:23:12 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
In a new NPR series called "Off the Script," 55-year-old social students and civics teacher Ruben Sandoval, who voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016, asked Beto O'Rourke how he would circumvent the Supreme Court to achieve his mandatory buyback of AR-15s. Specifically, Sandoval referenced two landmark cases that protect the Second Amendment and an American's right to keep and bear arms for self-defense.
"As you know, one of the courses that I teach, I teach Texas government and also state and local government bath at Coronado and EPCC [El Paso Community College]. So we kind of discuss these issues as far as the Second Amendment and the limits on the Second Amendment. And I remember what you said on the stage as far as the buyback program, the mandatory buyback. The question I have is: How would you get around the Supreme Court rulings?" Sandoval asked.
"I mean, you've got the D.C. v. Heller, which began to federalize or actually applied it to D.C., the Second Amendment, and then you have the McDonald v. Chicago, which basically said the Second Amendment is incorporated to all States," Sandoval explained. "And so it would seem as though the courts would probably rule against something banning the AK-47, the AR-15s. And a mandatory buyback program would seem to be deemed unconstitutional, and as late as 2016, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals also included assault rifles to be part of the arms that are protected by the Second Amendment. So how would you be able to get around that?"
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“Trouble is, SCOTUS has declined to hear appeals of Assault Weapon Bans in Maryland and Illinois, so we don’t really know if the Supreme Court would strike down an AR and AK ban.”
Could be that the the execrable supreme court has decided that the states can set parameters on which battle rifles are permissible in each state.
That would mean that weenie, liberal states have less firepower, while conservative states are heavily armed and can blow leftists out of the water.
Just a thought.
The only time leftists use the Constitution is to use it against the people and for their own power.
This truism never fails.
LOL - good one.
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