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Posted on 11/21/2007 5:09:14 AM PST by rellimpank
By agreeing yesterday to rule on whether provisions of the District of Columbia’s stringent gun control law violate the Second Amendment to the Constitution, the Supreme Court has inserted itself into a roiling public controversy with large ramifications for public safety. The court’s move sowed hope and fear among supporters of reasonable gun control, and it ratcheted up the suspense surrounding the court’s current term.
The hope, which we share, is that the court will rise above the hard-right ideology of some justices to render a decision respectful of the Constitution’s text and the violent consequences of denying government broad room to regulate guns. The fear is that it will not.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
As usual, the NYT has the story wrong, following their long standing editorial policy not to let hard facts get in the way of their editorial bias. The wording of the Second Amendment is as relevant today as it was 200+ years ago.
The Framers of the Constitution knew very well what they were doing when they wrote the Second Amendment and wrote it the way they intended. It is only the idiot liberals who fail to connect the dots and understand that if all of the law-abiding people were to give up private ownership of their guns, we would all be at the mercy of the government and the criminals (no difference between them).
In addition the court could rule it is an individual right protected to insure the states could have militias but since the states no longer have militias it is obsolete
Unfortunately as one justice in the past stated “The Constitution is what we say it is “
Look for a ruling as convoluted and dangerous as Roe Vs Wade on this one
I ain’t optimistic
Grammatical Analysis of 2nd amendment, 1991
Excerpt:
"A well-schooled electorate, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and read Books, shall not be infringed."
And just what part of "Right of The People" and "shall not be infringed" confers or fails to limit the "broad room" of the government to "regulate guns".
Of course they don't really want to regulate guns, in the sense that word was historically used with respect to guns, or timepieces for that matter, but rather to infringe upon the right of the people to keep (have, possesses, own) and bear(carry and use) arms". Now that is a definite no-no, and makes them some of those domestic enemies I seem to remember taking an oath to defend the Constitution against ... several times in fact.
those sentences show that they are really afraid theyre gonna lose on this thing.
It should give us all hope.
If the ruling goes the way the NYT wants it to, it could, as that could mean the time to press the reset button had arrived.
Well, that makes it pretty clear than only state schools have the right to own books. < /lib mode>
LOL!
—good one—I had lost that article in a computer change—thanks—
Ah but you see they can't even rule on whether the DC code violates second amendment rights, until they define who has such rights, and to some degree what they are. That alone would be a huge step, in whichever direction they take.
I think that article/analysis provides the single best refutation to the claim that the 2nd Amendment applies only to the militia.
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http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~taierip/imperial_march.mp3
Why does the text never return when I put an image in? It buggers up the link.
You're not formatting the HTML code properly for what you're trying to do.
Exactly.
To this line...
“A decision that upends needed gun controls currently in place around the country would imperil the lives of Americans.”
...I say - PROVE IT.
Did you READ that quote?
The NYT is saying that being “respectful of the Constitution’s text” is something that they oppose!
Quite an admission, though we already knew this about the left...
Bttttttttt
Can’t wait to hear the outcome of this
"A well-schooled electorate, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and read Books, shall not be infringed."I want that on a bumper sticker.
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