Posted on 03/10/2007 4:32:16 AM PST by Pharmboy
RevWar/Colonial History/General Washington Ping List
I felt this was important enough a quote to ping the list. In all my years as an NRA member and gun rights advocate (since 1975) I had never seen this observation stated as such. I thought you folks would want to see it (I apologize to those who already knew this logic and did not need this ping).
A bayonet ? Why how on earth would you use a bayonet when you are duck hunting ?
Yes that quote is good. As obvious as can be but still rare that its uttered in print or from the bench.
---this has interesting implications, to say the least---
Madame Prosecutor its effect is to make any further prosecutions illegal and you know it.
BTW I'm also reasonably certain that if you continue to prosecute in the face of this decision that you become personally liable for willful violations of civil rights under false color of authority.
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---Second Amendment scholar Clayton Cramer has some excellent commentary in his blog--
---http://claytoncramer.com/weblog/blogger.html
Yes--thanks for the link. I never knew about the issue of implied exclusivity of the second, with the 14th amendment broadening the second to include the landless, blacks and women. Excellent commentary.
Judge Silberman was appointed United States Circuit Judge in October 1985, and took senior status on November 1, 2000. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1957 and Harvard Law School in 1961. He has been a partner in law firms in Honolulu and Washington, D.C., as well as a banker in San Francisco. He served in government as an attorney in the NLRB’s appellate section, Solicitor of the Department of Labor from 1969 to 1970, Undersecretary of Labor from 1970 to 1973, Deputy Attorney General of the United States from 1974 to 1975, and Ambassador to Yugoslavia from 1975 to 1977. From 1981 to 1985, he served as a member of the General Advisory Committee on Arms Control and Disarmament and the Department of Defense Policy Board. He was appointed by the Chief Justice to a term (1996 to 2003) as a member of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court’s Review Panel. He also served as Co-Chairman (2004 to 2005) of the President’s Intelligence Commission. He was an Adjunct Professor of Administrative Law at Georgetown University Law Center from 1987 to 1994 and in 1997 and 1999, at NYU from 1995 to 1996, and at Harvard in 1998. He is now the Distinguished Visitor from the Judiciary at Georgetown University Law Center.
5.56mm
Concur, call it the Minuteman ping!
Will this lead to the end of NYC's gun control laws? If so it would be a huge change.
The most common sense comment I've ever seen from a judge on the 2nd Amendment. Cheers, Judge Silberman!
And, through the good judge, Ronaldus Magnus is still having a positive effect on this greatest of countries.
Here, here!
"Today's decision flies in the face of laws that have helped decrease gun violence in the District of Columbia," D.C. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty said.
The DC libs are caught in quite a bind, it seems (to my non-legal mind, I might add). If they DON'T appeal, they then must abide by the ruling and non-felons will be able to keep arms in their homes; if they DO appeal, they risk the SCOTUS allowing EVERYONE in the country to have pistols in their homes. HA!
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