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To: robertpaulsen

What do you think the Supreme Court will rule?


90 posted on 03/05/2008 8:18:55 AM PST by wastedyears (Iron Maiden in two weeks' time.)
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To: wastedyears; Nachoman
Toss of the coin.

Either they'll rule along the limited lines of what Nachoman said in post #54 or they'll rule Militia only. If they go with Circuit Court case precedent, it will be the latter.

Plus, the Miller decision doesn't help matters. Here you've got the U.S. Supreme Court implying that only Militia-type weapons are protected by the second amendment. Now, we can argue all day what exactly those weapons are, but it seems odd that the court would be saying that only military weapons are protected .... for civilian use.

Why make a distinction? Why not just say "all weapons". Criminy -- if you're protecting the most destructive of all weapons, why leave out a few?

There is a simple answer, of course. And that is that the second amendment only protects Militia-type weapons for those individuals in a Militia. But nobody wants to hear that. So just pretend I didn't say it.

95 posted on 03/05/2008 9:09:32 AM PST by robertpaulsen
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