Posted on 06/24/2022 9:41:21 AM PDT by upchuck
Yesterday, the Supreme Court struck down a New York law restricting gun-carrying rights for citizens. This has been seen as the most important ruling on guns in over a decade. The decision was 6-3 and allows more people to legally carry guns on the streets of the nation’s largest cities
Justice Clarence Thomas wrote the following for the majority that the Constitution protects “an individual’s right to carry a handgun for self-defense outside the home.”
In 43 States, the government issues licenses to carry based on objective criteria. But in six states, including New York, the government further conditions the issuance of a license to carry on a citizen’s showing of some additional special need.
We know of no other constitutional right that an individual may exercise only after demonstrating to government officers some special need.
That is not how the First Amendment works when it comes to unpopular speech or the free exercise of religion. It is not how the Sixth Amendment works when it comes to a defendant’s right to confront the witnesses against him.
And it is not how the Second Amendment works when it comes to public carry for self-defense.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
A political system that does not trust its population to own firearms cannot be trusted. We’ve got law enforcement who now go to a place where a crime is being committed and all they do is take a selfie of themself at the scene and then “stand down” and wait for “backup” once somebody figures out who the hell is “in charge”. You can’t trust the FBI, they’re busy chasing down and arresting millions of J6ers. What is going on outside the Supreme Court and the Justice’s homes today are Federal crimes. Sadly, the FIB boyz aren’t interested.
Wouldn't recommend it. As I understand it, if you "fire into the air" or "fire a warning shot", greasy lawyers (are there any other kind?) will argue that it is an indication that your life was not actually under direct threat.
I believe a Second Civil war is immanent, there is no longer any common political or moral ground between our two factions.
I should watch Scanners again.
The left are so mad they could shoot someone.
Or, kill a baby.
Or, drive their carbon spewing car over a cliff while eating a veggie burger.
‘This is a horrifying decision’: ‘Heartbroken’ Michelle Obama leads furious criticism of SCOTUS overturning of Roe v. Wade - as Amy Schumer blasts justices for following ‘intentions of slave-owning rapists who’ve been dead for hundreds for years’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-10950323/Michelle-Obama-Amy-Schumer-lead-furious-criticism-Roe-v-Wade-overturn.html
Wow...... that looks like really good stuff.
Please savor a sip or two for me
“Savor the progressives’ apoplectic outrage over SCOTUS’s Second Amendment vindication”
That and today’s abortion ruling has most libs on suicide watch.
I love the smell of schadenfreude in the morning.
the natural right to self defense shall not be infringed
thats why they focus on the gun
the gun is innately evil
BTTT!!!!
I got lucky back around 2010 or so, found a steady source of this at MSRP before the social media groups shot the prices into the stratosphere. Stashed a few bottles and only pull the cork on *very* special occasions. Like this. Should go great with a drop or two of liberal tears.
Read the decision and it’s pretty narrowly written. The problem seems to be that the New York reason for denying concealed carry were not specific and too open to interpretation. As was pointed out in the concurring decisions there are ways in which New York could limit concealed carry by making the reasons more specific. This isn’t the last word unfortunately.
It’s who has the guns:
little people of flyover country with guns=bad
armed security guards of big, important people=good
what must the children of pro-abortion parents think?
thank God I was convenient?
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