Posted on 07/16/2007 8:03:08 AM PDT by ctdonath2
Local government officials in Washington, D.C., decided on Monday to appeal to the Supreme Court in a major test case on the meaning of the Second Amendment. The key issue in the coming petition will be whether the Amendment protects an individual right to have guns in one's home.
What part of responding to a previous post which had expressed a general ethnic smear don’t YOU understand?
I can’t read those replies, mod removed them. i guess it’s just as well that way.
Just read yours. I shall comply. Please check #99.
This decision would only affect the federal government. Unless, the SCOTUS chooses to incorporate the 2nd amendment to apply to the states, then individual states like Illinois are free to do whatever they want regarding gun ownership.
Mariebl is correct - unless the court incorporates the 2nd amendment, states and local governments are still free to restrict gun ownership anyway they like.
What it could open the door to is more federal legislation.
Good point. With Scalia and Rhenquist on the court, any case involving a criminal was suspect. Hopefully, with Roberts and Alito, Scalia can be a little more focused on constitutional issues rather than the wants of law enforcement.
A favorable verdict would open the door to incorporation by recognizing that there is, in fact, an individual right which can and should be incorporated just like the rest.
I don't believe that the collective right argument has been the sticking point from incorporating the 2nd though.
Looks like they’re going for broke. They will LOSE, big time, and Americans will WIN!!
We in Virginia specifically added the right to hunt to the Commonwealth's Constitution back in 2000, but federally there actually is no such right.
Thank you for the information really appreciate your views on this issue.
This “old” stuff really sucks, doesn’t it? I guess it’s better than “dead”, though.
True enough, but the decision would still loom large for our side to the good.
If the 2nd is collective, then only the states could file for incorporation - which they don’t care about, so they haven’t.
Only by declaring the 2nd individual can individuals then file to have it incorporated.
No “individual” ruling, no incorporation. SCOTUS ruling favorably on Parker would change that.
The Supremes will hear the case, rule against DC, and find some weaselly way to avoid the “individual right” ruling that we all want to see.
They’ll have their cake and eat it too.
Not nearly as young as I used to be. Not nearly as old as, God willing, I hope to become. I agree with what I think you are suggesting that, with due humility as to my potential eternal destinations, getting older is preferable to the obvious alternative. For two things, I get to keep posting on FR and voting against Demonrats.
AND, May God bless you and yours!
From your keyboard to God’s ears. (Incorporation of RTKBA)
The precedent this might set is that municipalities cannot supercede state or federal law to their own ends as far as gun control issues, a la New York City and Chicago.
The SCOTUS can weasel out by either refusing to grant cert, leaving the ruling applicable only to DC, or hearing the case and deciding it on a technicality, making it only applicable to DC. Justices Roberts and Alito need to cowboy the f*ck up and decide gun control in favor of the Second amendment once and for all.
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