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If a person is innocent until proven guilty, you may not take away a fundamental Constitutional right on a mere indictment.
1 posted on 09/26/2022 4:43:08 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: marktwain

...and with all the “no bail” policies being enacted, Good Luck to all you young folk who are going to have to live under this.

smh


2 posted on 09/26/2022 4:48:31 AM PDT by Roccus (First we beat the Nazis........Then we defeated the Soviets....... Now, we are them.)
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“In Cases v. United States, a three-judge panel, all Progressives appointed by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR)...”


It is important to remember that back then like now, ‘progressives’ were very much against the idea of citizens owning firearms. Handguns were originally included in the National Firearms Act of 1934, but were left out of the Act at the last minute.


4 posted on 09/26/2022 4:54:22 AM PDT by hanamizu
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To: marktwain

Especially since “indictment” means nothing more than “we accuse!”

Ever heard of a woman being “encouraged” to falsely claim someone attacked her?


5 posted on 09/26/2022 5:16:27 AM PDT by bobbo666 (Baizuo)
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To: marktwain

Having recently served on a grand jury….not too many of the folks we indicted had the license or means to actual purchase a legal firearm.


7 posted on 09/26/2022 5:31:35 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: marktwain

The term “innocent until proven guilty” needs to be discarded.

The word “until” sounds like a guilty verdict is a foregone conclusion, like a kangaroo court.

The word “until” should be replaced with “unless.”

Innocent unless proven guilty.


11 posted on 09/26/2022 6:43:40 AM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Disband and Defund the putrid FBI. America does not need an out of control Gestapo)
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To: marktwain

You really need to read the highly suppressed and out of print 1982 Senate report on the 2nd Amendment. I have a paper copy.

https://guncite.com/journals/senrpt/senrpt.html

Here is an interesting state case from Texas in 1878.

Jennings v. State, 5 Tex. Crim. App. 298, at 300-01 (1878).

“We believe that portion of the act which provides that, in case of conviction, the defendant shall forfeit to the county the weapon or weapons so found on or about his person is not within the scope of legislative authority. * * * One of his most sacred rights is that of having arms for his own defence and that of the State. This right is one of the surest safeguards of liberty and self-preservation.”


12 posted on 09/26/2022 8:11:45 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( FR is on GAB! https://gab.com/groups/67851)
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To: marktwain

The The decision discussed is an excellent one. I read through it a couple of days ago. Now we get to wait many months while our completely dysfunctional legal system processes the inevitable appeal.


13 posted on 09/26/2022 9:34:42 AM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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