Posted on 07/11/2010 7:50:18 PM PDT by RWB Patriot
The second 5-4 reaffirmation of gun-ownership rights by the Supreme Court over the past two years is yet another reminder that the nation’s highest court is nothing more than a political tool. In the recent McDonald v. Chicago case, the Supreme Court found that individuals have a right to possess a handgun in their home for self-defense.
All well and good, but in both the Chicago and D.C. cases, had there been one more liberal on the court, the Constitutional right and, more important, the natural right to bear arms would have been declared “against the law.”
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Is this “R. J. Ringer” who wrote “Looking out for Number 1, and winning by Intimidation”?
I suspect it is the same man, the turtle was a character in some of his books. I think I have a copy of all the books he wrote.
His last book was: “How to find Happiness during the Collapse of Western Civilization”. He was going Galt even then.
He was good friends with William Simon.
Ringer was a Libertarian then, not sure if he is now, but would be surprised if he has changed that.
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