Posted on 04/03/2007 5:57:12 AM PDT by dashing doofus
CONSIDERING HOW badly things have been going for conservatives, right-wingers, Republicans and anyone else whose brain doesn't explode like one of those guys from the movie "Scanners" at the thought of another Republican President, it's worth noting that one of the greatest conservative victories of the last 40 years is quietly unfolding right in front of us. On March 9, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit issued an epochal ruling. The court found that the Second Amendment actually protects the right to bear arms for individuals.
Now, that in and of itself is huge. For decades, the courts, the legal and academic establishments, the press and all right-thinking people everywhere have been arguing that not only is the Second Amendment a chestnut from a bygone age, but that enlightened judges should just go ahead and void the darn thing like a bad parking ticket.
(Excerpt) Read more at unionleader.com ...
Don’t fool yourself.
They’ll be back.
This DID say the Ninth Circuit, didn’t it?
The most overturned court in America?
That may well be the intent - to have SCOTUS scuttle yet another 9th Court decision....
What they can’t do directly they can still do indirectly under the guise of “regulating commerce” as long as the New Deal commerce clause interpretation stands.
“If liberals interpreted the Second Amendment the way they interpret the rest of the Bill of Rights, there would be law professors arguing that gun ownership is mandatory.”
Man, is THAT well put!!!
The most overturned court in America?
Take another look, Sarge. The ruling was on March 9th in the D.C. Circuit Court, not the 9th Circuit Court.
*grumbles*
I think my eyes still have Iraq dust in them....
The HUGE mistake in the liberal thinking is that in saying we don’t have a right to shout fire in a crowded theatre therefore we don’t have a right to own assault weapons as rights are not absolute.
But not having the means to exercise a right is not the same as it being illegal to exercise that right in certain circumstances.
Making it illegal to own certain weapons so we don’t abuse them is like removing our vocal chords so we can’t shout fire in a crowded theatre.
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