[messierhunter]

You're right about that. Just look at Steven's dissent to find out how badly liberals want to "control your rights" for you:

Justice John Paul Stevens wrote that the majority "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."

You're damn right they limited the "tools" available to you to "regulate" the unwashed masses. Liberals have NOTHING but contempt for anyone who wishes to limit government. Funny enough, that's exactly what the bill of rights is supposed to do, and yet a justice of the supreme court, someone who's supposed to be an expert on this matter, can't even grasp that simple concept. 5-4 in our favor, we weren't just lucky, this was divine intervention of a near disaster.

[mr_hammer]

“5-4 in our favor, we weren’t just lucky, this was divine intervention of a near disaster. “

Damn straight! We live to fight on!

Freedom is not free!

[MrB]

“Liberals have NOTHING but contempt for anyone who wishes to “

take care of himself and be responsible for himself and his family.

[MrB]

5-4 in our favor, we weren't just lucky, this was divine intervention of a near disaster

I know _I_ was praying, and I do feel the hand of God in this, including the narrow decision.

How many FReepers have you seen that have decided to support McCain because of the implications of a 5-4 decision? I've seen a bunch.

[FredZarguna]

Two things about Stevens' comment are striking right off the bat: First, that Justice Stevens is suddenly an originalist -- "O Brave New World, that has such people in it!"

Second, JPS appears to believe that conditions for the founding generation were roughly equivalent to conditions now, and that many of the framers did not literally have the frontier outside their back doors, or that the framers were not revolutionaries whose individual possession of weapons made the Constitution possible in the first place.

Since Stevens is suddenly interested in these things, here's the opinion of one of them concerning the Supreme Court:

"But the opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional and what not, not only for themselves in their own sphere of action but for the Legislature and Executive also in their spheres, would make the Judiciary a despotic branch."

—Thomas Jefferson to Abigail Adams, 1804.

As true in 1804 as in 2008. That at least has not changed.