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To: robertpaulsen

So you’re saying that because some courts, government employees, make a finding which favors the government, it MUST be right, even if it cannot be squared with the merits, as interpreted by a non-government-employee of average intelligence???

I’m not posting this to take a position the issue as much as to chide you for relying on court findings as if they could supersede the merits.


131 posted on 07/07/2007 12:38:50 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: Still Thinking
"So you’re saying that because some courts, government employees, make a finding which favors the government, it MUST be right, even if it cannot be squared with the merits, as interpreted by a non-government-employee of average intelligence???"

I'm simply saying that if the U.S. Supreme Court ever decides to look at the second amendment, they are going to be heavily influenced by past lower court decisions.

There are 11 Circuit Courts plus the DC Circuit. Out of those twelve courts, ten have ruled a collective right. Of the 30-40 second amendment cases heard by all those courts, only two were ruled an individual right.

Now, you're asking if those ten different Circuit Courts ruling in those 30-something different gun cases could all be wrong and the other two were right? Sure. That's possible.

137 posted on 07/07/2007 1:02:53 PM PDT by robertpaulsen
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