Posted on 03/24/2021 3:24:57 PM PDT by Mount Athos
If this is accepted for review by the Supreme Court -- and the Supreme Court has shown itself to be extraordinarily cowardly in ducking ruling on big-ticket items -- we will find out if we really have a "conservative" court, or if the lawyers recommended by the Professional Class Karens of the Federalist Society are just from the Corporate Wing of the Uniparty.
I suspect the latter.
--- The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a Hawaii gun regulation, ruling Wednesday that states can restrict the right to openly carry a firearm in public. The 7-4 decision said restrictions on carrying guns in public do not fall within the scope of what is protected by the Second Amendment.
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"We have never assumed that individuals have an unfettered right to carry weapons in public spaces," the majority ruled. "Indeed, we can find no general right to carry arms into the public square for self defense."
"The en banc court held that the Second Amendment does not guarantee an unfettered, general right to openly carry arms in public for individual self-defense. Accordingly, Hawaii�s firearms-carry scheme is lawful."
The case was brought by George Young, who applied for a license twice in 2011 to carry a gun in public either openly or concealed and was denied both times because he didn't prove the "urgency or the need" to openly carry a firearm in public, the decision said. Instead, Young relied on his "general desire to carry a firearm for self-defense."
Under Hawaii's law, residents have to show the "urgency or the need" to carry a firearm in public and must be of good moral character and "engaged in the protection of life and property."
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Judge Diarmuid F. O'Scannlain authored Wednesday�s dissent, calling the ruling "extreme."
"The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution guarantees 'the right of the people to keep and bear Arms'. Today, a majority of our court has decided that the Second Amendment does not mean what it says," the minority dissented. "Instead, the majority holds that while the Second Amendment may guarantee the right to keep a firearm for self-defense within one�s home, it provides no right whatsoever to bear-i.e., to carry -- that same firearm for self-defense in any other place."
"We now become the first and only court of appeals to hold that public carry falls entirely outside the scope of the Amendment�s protections," O'Scannlain continued. "In so holding, the majority reduces the right to 'bear Arms' to a mere inkblot."
This guy... I guess a lawyer, ... What a dufus. The constitution of the United States clearly states what the Federal government CAN do. Regulating the cart of firearms in public is therefor a States issue. Who would want to drink with this see you next Tuesday creep.
The lawless supreme court does not care about the constitution.
They will not rule against the ninth on this issue.
There is no federal regulation of firearms at issue in this case. This case is about whether a Hawaii state law violates the federal Constitution.
Thank you for the clarification.
You say that it is obvious we have the right to defend ourselves, but that is not as obvious as you and I think it is. Laws and judicial decisions indicating a requirement to retreat when someone’s trying to kill you would say that it is not so obvious we have a right to defend ourselves.
from my cold dead hands
I get all that, but it is incorrect. You cannot be ascribed a duty to retreat. You can be, perhaps, in order to have a society, tasked with making only a reasonable, proportionate response, but that’s it.
PFFFTTTT..... just more kabuki as well as distraction from what’s really going on. Squirrel......
good stuff- almost liek they knew what they were talking about lol- smart dudes back then- I have a ton of founding father’s gun quotes in my profile page if you are interested- some really good stuff there too
[[Next, the 9th Circus Court will rule that there is no right to have bullets in a firearm.]]
They will argue that nowhere in the constittution does it say we have the right to own ammo
9th is by far the most overturned court of appeals.
Worthless bunch of libertards
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