On to the next court. With the legal wind at our backs, we need to press our advantage carefully, but firmly.
Posted on 03/20/2007 9:41:22 AM PDT by Revtwo
Let's see how the vote turns out. I'm betting the Dems can't get all their own people to support it. Look at the names, the most liberal congressmen from the most liberal districts, the sheeple from these places are for gun control. Local districts are going to vote local politics. But! when it comes to national elections they don't bring it up i.e. Barack and Hillary. Would they pass it if they could? You bet!
I'm not 100% certain, but I think he's a member of my club. (He shows up at enough of the member meetings... but I never see him at the range.)
We got a twofer here, Second Amendment and ex post facto reasoning. It would be nice if this decision eventually shot down at least the ex post facto parts of the Lautenberg Amendment, and quite ironic considering the state, NJ.
AMEN BROTHER!!
...or if they issue a concealed carry permit to a non law enforcement official....
I'll predict that now the ice is broken we'll see similar rulings throughout the country. All the others were waiting for was someone to provide some leadership one way or another.
No, because two elements necessary for an October Revolution-style revolt aren't there:
1) The majority of the populace doesn't actively hate the government. Almost nobody in Russia liked the Czars.
2) The populace as a whole isn't unarmed. The Bolsheviks won because the few Loyalists that weren't in the military were unarmed and could not resist - plus Russia had a history of disarming the peasantry.
Number 1 is a bit iffy. If anything, if the liberals gain any more power, they might find themselves the *target* of a mass uprising, especially if they get HB 1022 through.
On to the next court. With the legal wind at our backs, we need to press our advantage carefully, but firmly.
It's called "precedent". Courts are notoriously loath to create one; they are almost always willing to follow it.
Now that there *is* precedent, expect to see an explosion of similar decisions everywhere. Also expect to see one or more of these cases pop up in the SC's calendar.
Talk about a shocker! Wow That's at least 440 VOLTS. Great way to recharge the system!
Pick up a helmet and rubber suit on your way home from work. Pigs have taken to flight.
And the NRA did file an amicus brief for the appeal. The link about Souter and Ginsberg being in favor of the Second Amendment meaning more than "mere soldiering," i.e. the collective right to keep and bear arms, is based on that NY Times' article, "Court Rejects Strict Gun Law as Unconstitutional ."
The majority in yesterday’s decision pointed to a 1998 dissent in which “at least three current members (and one former member) of the Supreme Court have read ‘bear arms’ in the Second Amendment to have meaning beyond mere soldiering.” They were former Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, who died in 2005, and Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Antonin Scalia and David H. Souter.
I wish I knew the name of the decision.
I'll bet the rugriders are all staying under cover in your area.
What happens when a rugrider gets sh++ on by a pig?
Cheers are heard all the way from Nevada!
In other news: Hell froze over today.
The decisions of each only apply within their jurisdiction. This relieves the Supreme Court (aka SCOTUS) from having to review everything. If there is a difference in verdicts between otherwise equal jurisdictions, one can appeal to SCOTUS to resolve the difference.
In the other ruling (Parker), the case only addressed and overturned two DC laws. As these laws only apply in DC, the verdict does not per se apply elsewhere. However, if someone has a similar case elsewhere but gets a dramatically different ruling in a Federal Court of Appeals, they can appeal to SCOTUS saying "these two cases are practically identical, yet the DC court came to a very different conclusion than the court for my jurisdiction - please address and resolve."
Put simply: The Parker case only addressed DC laws, so the verdict only applies to DC. It will take another case to demand equal treatment elsewhere under different, yet similar, laws.
I just saw a pig fly by my window
Dialing 1-800-666-HELL (as I watch a pig fly by my window)
ring...ring
"Hello! You've reached Hell, Demon Hillary speaking. How may I direct your (^&*&%%&$ call?"
"What's the temperature down there now?"
"38 and falling. Why do you ask?"
(sound of a dial tone)
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