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To: MAGAlady

The Supreme Court needs to stop hiding from this issue and make a blanket ruling - either the Second Amendment has meaning and is the ruling principle for firearms in this nation, or it is not. Democrats continue to deprive American citizens of their rights, while the Supreme Court continues to pretend it has more important things to worry about.


12 posted on 12/26/2019 12:32:27 PM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

Heller, Caetano v Massachusetts

It is settled that the Second Amendment protects an
individual right to keep and bear arms that applies
against both the Federal Government and the States.
District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U. S. 570 (2008);
McDonald v. Chicago, 561 U. S. 742 (2010).

McDonald v. City of Chicago, case in which on June 28, 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled (5–4) that the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which guarantees “the right of the people to keep and bear Arms,” applies to state and local governments as well as to the federal government.

We found the argument “that only those arms in existence in the 18th century are protected by the Second Amendment” not merely wrong, but “bordering on the frivolous.”

Instead, we held that “the Second Amendment extends,
prima facie, to all instruments that constitute bearable
arms, even those that were not in existence at the time of
the founding.”

Heller defined the “Arms” covered by the Second Amendment to include “‘any thing that a man wears for his defence, or takes into his hands, or useth in wrath to cast at or strike another.’”

If Heller tells us anything, it is that firearms cannot be
categorically prohibited just because they are dangerous.


110 posted on 12/26/2019 5:48:54 PM PST by justme4now (Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it)
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

No what Trump needs to do is declare ALL Democraps are Domestic Enemies of the state....because they are.


120 posted on 12/26/2019 7:01:23 PM PST by Bommer (2020 - Vote all incumbent congressmen and senators out! VOTE THE BUMS OUT!!!)
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