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DC Circuit strikes down DC gun law
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| 03/08/2007
| Howard Bashman
Posted on 03/09/2007 8:10:02 AM PST by cryptical
Edited on 03/09/2007 10:38:14 AM PST by Admin Moderator.
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To: cryptical
"[T]he phrase 'the right of the people,' when read intratextually and in light of Supreme Court precedent, leads us to conclude that the right in question is individual." This is damned near earth shattering for a ruling.
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posted on
03/09/2007 8:25:08 AM PST
by
Centurion2000
(If you're not being shot at, it's not a high stress job.)
To: ArrogantBustard
IPredictCrimeWillGoDOWN!!!!
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posted on
03/09/2007 8:25:12 AM PST
by
goodnesswins
(We need to cure Academentia)
To: cryptical
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posted on
03/09/2007 8:25:29 AM PST
by
NonValueAdded
(Prevent Glo-Ball Warming ... turn out the sun when not in use)
To: CFC__VRWC
I also was HUGELY surprised at the CORRECT interpretation of the 2nd amendment.
Back when yahoo had message boards, you couldn't swing a stick without hitting a dozen stupid assed lefties that clung to the "WELL REGULATED" part of the amendment, applying what THEY thought it meant, instead of what the founders intended.
This is usually the position of most leftist judges as well.
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posted on
03/09/2007 8:25:38 AM PST
by
MrB
(You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
To: azhenfud
The decision was well written and clearly the result of someone who gets it!
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posted on
03/09/2007 8:26:39 AM PST
by
airborne
(Rudy is nothing but a donkey in an elephant suit! HUNTER 2008!)
To: toomanygrasshoppers
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posted on
03/09/2007 8:26:46 AM PST
by
FrogHawk
(watchforlowflyingfrogs)
To: Alberta's Child
Rudy Giuliani and Michael Bloomberg are going to be greatly disappointed to hear this. And Romney and McCain also
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posted on
03/09/2007 8:26:53 AM PST
by
from occupied ga
(Your most dangerous enemy is your own government)
To: cryptical
Go Judge Silberman, to think we could have had him on SCOTUS instead of Anthony Kennedy.
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posted on
03/09/2007 8:26:54 AM PST
by
NeoCaveman
(Hillary Hugo Chavez wants to "take those profits" away from you, for the common good)
To: Admin Moderator; The KG9 Kid
2nd the KG9 Kid's recommendation. The recognition that the 2A protects an individual right, by a Federal Court, is just huge, on the face of it.
This is the best news I've heard in a while.
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posted on
03/09/2007 8:27:26 AM PST
by
FreedomPoster
(Guns themselves are fairly robust; their chief enemies are rust and politicians) (NRA)
To: cryptical
"But her other main point is that the majority's assertion to the contrary constitutes nothing more than dicta because the Second Amendment's protections, whatever they entail, do not extend to the District of Columbia, because it is not a State. "
Does that mean that there is no free speech right, freedom of religion, right to assmeble, etc in DC? Does the Constititution not apply there? hmm...
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posted on
03/09/2007 8:27:50 AM PST
by
Castigar
To: cryptical
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posted on
03/09/2007 8:27:51 AM PST
by
Vaquero
("An armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
To: azhenfud
HOLD EVERYTHING!
I notice when you click on the source, instead of the blog's URL, you get a freerepublic url.
Makes me mighty suspicious that maybe we've been had.
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posted on
03/09/2007 8:28:09 AM PST
by
basil
(Exercise your Second Amendment rights--buy another gun today.)
To: longtermmemmory
BOTH have stood for this as COLLECTIVE right. Eh... they were WRONG.
"What is true of every member of the society, individually, is true of them all collectively; since the rights of the whole can be no more than the sum of the rights of the individuals." --Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1789. ME 7:455, Papers 15:393
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posted on
03/09/2007 8:28:20 AM PST
by
Dead Corpse
(What would a free man do?)
To: cryptical
Going out to hunt some of those flying pigs.
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posted on
03/09/2007 8:28:44 AM PST
by
AU72
To: basil
Nope, check out Instapundit.
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posted on
03/09/2007 8:28:47 AM PST
by
Pyro7480
("Jesu, Jesu, Jesu, esto mihi Jesus" -St. Ralph Sherwin's last words at Tyburn)
To: basil
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posted on
03/09/2007 8:29:07 AM PST
by
Pyro7480
("Jesu, Jesu, Jesu, esto mihi Jesus" -St. Ralph Sherwin's last words at Tyburn)
To: MrB
See the second quote/paragraph on my FR profile page, for an explanation of what "well regulated" is about. Great for making Lefties sputter.
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posted on
03/09/2007 8:29:19 AM PST
by
FreedomPoster
(Guns themselves are fairly robust; their chief enemies are rust and politicians) (NRA)
Once in a while...reason prevails.
May those unhappy about this choke on their tofu!!!
To: cryptical
Hooray!
This puts an even more cheerful face on what was already a good day.
To: ArrogantBustard
If this holds up, I see a crime-surge in Maryland's future. You're absolutely correct. With the citizens now able to be armed in DC, the thugs will now be a-scared, so they'll have to move on to other places.
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posted on
03/09/2007 8:30:07 AM PST
by
CT-Freeper
(Said the perpetually dejected Mets (and, yes, sometimes Jets) fan.)
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