"The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed -- where the government refuses to stand for reelection and silences those who protest; where courts have lost the courage to oppose, or can find no one to enforce their decrees. However improbable these contingencies may seem today, facing them unprepared is a mistake a free people get to make only once. "Wow!
This Justice understands! The other may also - maybe they dislike the idea of a free people fighting to remain free.
14 posted on
04/25/2004 10:10:41 AM PDT by
BenLurkin
(LESS government please, NOT more.)
To: BenLurkin; Beelzebubba
Expanding some to gargantuan proportions while discarding others like a crumpled gum wrapper is not faithfully applying the Constitution; it's using our power as federal judges to constitutionalize our personal preferences. Man, this guy is a fabulous writer!
15 posted on
04/25/2004 10:19:13 AM PDT by
Travis McGee
(----- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com -----)
To: BenLurkin
All the judges sitting on the Federal bench understand what the Second means; its simply that the majority don't like the idea of an armed citzenry having the power to overthrow the government which is their employer. The majority of federal (and most states) judges are corrupt when it comes to the 2nd. I fear they will continue down the same road until the citizens will take no more of their BS. I don't know when this might become the case, but I do think we have passed the point of no return. And its not just the 2nd, but the whole direction of the 'culture war' which is really a civil war that has not yet "gone hot".
25 posted on
04/26/2004 10:09:03 AM PDT by
45Auto
(Big holes are (almost) always better.)
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