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Justice Scalia Gets His Gun; SCOTUS Finds 2nd Amendment
Leibowtiz's Canticle ^ | June 26, 2008 | Leibowitz

Posted on 06/26/2008 7:24:53 AM PDT by Bob Leibowitz

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To: 3AngelaD

Oh happy day. On so many levels.>>>>> Says it all.!!!


61 posted on 06/26/2008 8:04:06 AM PDT by litehaus (A memory tooooo long)
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To: skeeter

This may be taken as hyperbole, but I really don’t think it is.

Liberals TRULY BELIEVE that they are wiser than anyone else who has ever lived in human history, AND they are wiser than God Himself.


62 posted on 06/26/2008 8:04:39 AM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: JohnLongIsland

“would have us believe that over 200 years ago, the Framers made a choice to limit the tools available to elected officials wishing to regulate civilian uses of weapons.”

Yes they did.

And Stevens would have us believe that 150 years ago, the authors of the XIVth amendment made a choice to forbid regulations on abortions while they were busy trying to protect black ex-slaves from being de facto slaves. The Constitution says “right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed” but says nothing of abortion at all. What an idiot.


63 posted on 06/26/2008 8:06:10 AM PDT by WOSG (http://no-bama.blogspot.com/ - NObama, stop the Hype and Chains candidate)
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To: Bob Leibowitz

When the dust settles, time to demand that the `blue states’ give full faith and credit to our states decisions to issue carry permits to their citizens.
(I know what you’re thinking, but there is no right to homosexual marriage, outside Kaleefornia.)


64 posted on 06/26/2008 8:07:12 AM PDT by tumblindice (Americas Founding Fathers, all armed conservatives)
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To: chesley
Vote for McCain. He's not good, but he's the best we've got.

Not my fav guy out there, but we've got a better chance with him than we do B.O.

65 posted on 06/26/2008 8:07:51 AM PDT by beaversmom
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To: sauropod
"I confess to a great deal of unease over waiting to hear what my rights are from a black robed oligarchy.

I share that unease. It's an obscenity that so much of our liberty is in the hands of a few judges, and that presidential campaigns are now merely struggles to control the courts. The outcome of this case was good, but both the anxiety and relief over it are proof that the system is badly distorted.

66 posted on 06/26/2008 8:08:34 AM PDT by VR-21
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To: Bob Leibowitz
Amazingly a 5-4 decision on an amendment just 27 words long!

5-4 decisions are likely to be the NORM for the foreseeable future!

67 posted on 06/26/2008 8:09:54 AM PDT by PISANO
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To: Bob Leibowitz
Justice Stephen Breyer wrote a separate dissent in which he said:

"In my view, there simply is no untouchable constitutional right guaranteed by the Second Amendment to keep loaded handguns in the house in crime-ridden urban areas."

68 posted on 06/26/2008 8:10:05 AM PDT by Joiseydude
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To: beaversmom

HA!

You’ve inspired my new tagline!!!!

Fight B.O. with RIGHT GUARD!


69 posted on 06/26/2008 8:11:10 AM PDT by G Larry (Fight B.O. with RIGHT GUARD! Vote McCain!)
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To: MrB
Liberals TRULY BELIEVE that they are wiser than anyone else who has ever lived in human history, AND they are wiser than God Himself.

This in spite of the death & debris they typically leave in their wake.

Whats that they say about good intentions?

70 posted on 06/26/2008 8:11:34 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: Bob Leibowitz

Ya’ know, since the liberals find a penumbra in the 14th amendment that says we have a God given right to murder babies and make that a litmus test for judge appointments to the Supreme Court (whether they agree on Roe). Why can’t the conservatives take the plain language of the 2nd and this case and make it a litmus test for future Supreme Court nominees (whether they agree with Heller)?


71 posted on 06/26/2008 8:12:36 AM PDT by Old Teufel Hunden
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To: MrB
Liberals TRULY BELIEVE that they are wiser than anyone else who has ever lived in human history, AND they are wiser than God Himself.

You're not exhibiting any hyperbole, what you are saying is the unvarnished truth!

I'll even go one step further. Liberals THINK THEY are God Himself.

Chairman Mao was a perfect example of this.
72 posted on 06/26/2008 8:14:45 AM PDT by dbehsman (NRA life member and loving every minute of it!)
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To: Joiseydude

I guess then in non-crime ridden areas it is acceptable to carry guns. Another fine example of liberal psycho-babble.


73 posted on 06/26/2008 8:14:57 AM PDT by JohnLongIsland
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To: Joiseydude
Well at least Breyer admits that D.C. is a “Crime ridden urban area.”
74 posted on 06/26/2008 8:15:21 AM PDT by 4yearlurker ("Give them Watts boys!!")
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To: dbehsman

One element in common in any totalitarian form of government is the replacement of God with the State.

Leftists think that “1984” was a suggestion instead of a warning.


75 posted on 06/26/2008 8:17:08 AM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: MrB

That’s what it’s all about. I want the government out of my way. Liberals, on the other hand, think it should “take a village” to raise my kids.


76 posted on 06/26/2008 8:18:25 AM PDT by messierhunter
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To: MrB
"...they may believe that the 2nd means what it says, but since it goes against their ideology, they’ll do whatever they can to overturn that meaning."

I wish more people understood that simple fact.

77 posted on 06/26/2008 8:18:40 AM PDT by VR-21
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To: MrB

Libs believe that they ARE God, and that they have the right to dictate the terms of existence to everyone else.

At the end of the day my FAL and I say that they’re dead bang wrong.


78 posted on 06/26/2008 8:21:24 AM PDT by Noumenon (Time for Atlas to shrug - and pick up a gun.)
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To: Bob Leibowitz

The fact that four out of the nine justices would vote against such a minimal case indicates that we are nowhere near out of the woods on this one. All it would take is one Obama judge.


79 posted on 06/26/2008 8:22:34 AM PDT by wendy1946
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To: Noumenon

Oh, it’s not just a “right” to dictate terms to everyone else,

it’s an OBLIGATION approaching the level of religious zealotry.


80 posted on 06/26/2008 8:22:47 AM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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