Posted on 01/14/2008 5:41:31 AM PST by servantboy777
Since "unrestricted' private ownership of guns clearly threatens the public safety, the 2nd Amendment can be interpreted to allow a variety of gun restrictions, according to the Bush administration.
The argument was delivered by U.S. Solicitor General Paul D. Clement in a brief filed with the U.S. Supreme Court in the ongoing arguments over the legality of a District of Columbia ban on handguns in homes, according to a report from the Los Angeles Times.
Clement suggested that gun rights are limited and subject to "reasonable regulation" and said all federal limits on guns should be upheld.
(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com ...
“I don’t think this should come as much of a surprise; after all, Bush said he’d sign the AWB if it were reauthorized by Congress.”
Oh no! Really? I better get that AR before he does. I’ll be so mad if it gets banned just before I can buy one.
I remember beaming with pride on that cold day in January, 2001 when the Chief Justice swore him in.
Sigh...
Anonymous stormtroopers have no place in a free country. Ever...
“mental defectives.”
Who are the mental defectives, by the way? Homophobes? Sexists? Home Schoolers? Fundamentalist Baptists? This is scary stuff.
Turns out, I wasn't.
Don’t forget “Constitutionalists”. Feebies and other “law over principle” types hate us and use the term “Constitutionalist” as a pejorative.
I am more afraid of an out of control goveremnt, than a fellow citzen who is packing!
Guess I'm in a lot of trouble then.
Anyone who would actually want to own one of those nasty, smelly, noisy, icky-poo gun-things just has to be insane.
game. set. match.
If your pressed for funds get an AK. The ammo is less expensive too.
"Such are a well regulated militia, composed of the freeholders, citizen and husbandman, who take up arms to preserve their property, as individuals, and their rights as freemen." - "M.T. Cicero", in a newspaper letter of 1788 touching the "militia" referred to in the Second Amendment to the Constitution.
"That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United states who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms..." - Samuel Adams, in Phila. Independent Gazetteer, August 20, 1789.
"The danger (where there is any) from armed citizens, is only to the 'government', not to 'society'; and as long as they have nothing to revenge in the government (which they cannot have while it is in their own hands) there are many advantages in their being accustomed to the use of arms, and no possible disadvantage." - Joel Barlow, Advice to the Privileged Orders, 1792-93
Bush is a gun grabber now? I had no idea he was soo liberal. But then again, look at his spending.
“Who are the mental defectives, by the way?”
Those without a Federal Certificate of Mental Competency, perhaps. There may be a test, or an interview or something. /s
When you need to hide your face to enforce a law in this country, the law must be wrong.
No replies, that he is protecting his undercover identity will be accepted.
Should read:
Since “unrestricted’ private ownership of guns
clearly threatens the public “Masters” safety,
they must be restricted to public officials,
police, military and a few hunters./S
Everyone says that we have to vote for the republican nominee no matter what, no matter who he is, no matter what he believes in, no matter what kind of record he has, no matter what!! Well, I don't go along with that. When you vote for the lesser of two evils, you simply elect evil. It also tells our side that evil is okay, and the NEXT TIME, the evil gets just a little worse, and it continues to grow. Just give it an inch and it takes a foot, then a yard, then a mile. That is what has happened to the republican party. People started to allow a little more and a little more, then RINOS like Bush, Arnold, McScream, Rummnie, the Hulkster, and a bunch of other senators. We allowed them in, and like a cancer, it continues to grow. Now, it has taken over. We vote a RINO in this time, next election it is not a RINO, but a full LIBERAL as the republican nominee. We allowed it. Thus, I will not vote for a lesser evil. I will not be a party to voting for this kind of slime. Do I vote for Stalin over Hitler?? One evil over another? People here keep saying that if I don't then Hillary wins. Do you tell me that if we vote in a RINO that we win? I don't think so.
“I’m now convinced that Bush is trying to leave office with the lowest approval ratings of any president in history.”
No, we are merely seeing the real Bush in his last year. Remember:
Law of The Sea
North South highway
Amnesty for Illegals
Persecution and procecution of border guards
Revitalization of Bill Clinton
Giving a pass to Sandy Berger
Massive spending
And now GWB does what the Clintons can’t do as easily, he weakens the second ammendment standing by sending a message to the court. George Bush, meet Jimmy Carter.
Wrong, IMHO,
If you have to rent a second storage unit just for your guns, You are a passonate collector.
If its too big to haul behind you F350 duallie...You love artillary, nothing wrong there, Go to the Knob Creek Gun range in Kentucky and you willl meet many folks like this.
If you need mechanical assitance to life your hand gun, you should work out more.
That’s tagline material there. I’d lift it, if I didn’t like the one I have...
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