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To: marktwain

I’ve always been disappointed in the milquetoast SCOTUS Heller decision. Sure it was an important victory, but it seems to leave way too much room for lower court leftist judges to uphold all kinds of bans and restrictions. We have cases in CA lost or dragging on for years that would have been a slam-dunk with a stronger ruling from SCOTUS. Almost every gun ban, restriction and regulation is in the governments “best interest”.


4 posted on 01/26/2015 6:48:24 AM PST by barefoot_hiker
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To: barefoot_hiker

Yes. Many lower courts are doing their best to gut Heller and McDonald by claiming that “intermediate scrutiny applies to anything not clearly spelled out in Heller, and that “intermediate scrutiny” is essentially the same as “rational basis”, which is pretty much a blank check.


5 posted on 01/26/2015 7:47:19 AM PST by marktwain (The old media must die for the Republic to live. Long live the new media!)
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To: barefoot_hiker

Bingo. One case vs. the phrase ‘shall not be infringed.’

I’d PAY to read their pretzel logic that a license is not an infringement, but licensing an abortion is

Or how requiring a license does not infringe upon a Right (IE: NOT requiring a license)

Maybe Buzzy’s head will finally fall forward...and explode


6 posted on 01/26/2015 9:48:04 AM PST by i_robot73 (Give me one example and I will show where gov't is the root of the problem(s).)
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