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To: Emmett McCarthy
Am I wrong to read into this that the Court realizes the importance of this case to large numbers of average American citizens who are looking for them to uphold the clear meaning of the 2nd Amendment? And how far-reaching the effect of their ultimate decision will be all over the U.S.?

I believe yes to both questions, but I think they will limit it to just the D.C. question as they have already framed it.

7 posted on 03/04/2008 7:05:43 PM PST by neverdem (I have to hope for a brokered GOP Convention. It can't get any worse.)
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To: neverdem

Although it’s a tough genie to keep in the bottle. Should they determine that DC folx have a 2A right, it will be hard to argue no one else does, and if they rule the DC folx lack any 2A right, it will be hard to argue that anyone else has one either. So I don’t think they can keep the scope of the decision as narrow as they might wish.


9 posted on 03/04/2008 7:07:54 PM PST by coloradan (The US is becoming a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
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To: neverdem

But wouldn’t that open the federal district courts all over to hear cases and hand down their own decisions in line with that precedent?


19 posted on 03/04/2008 7:21:45 PM PST by Emmett McCarthy
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