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1 posted on 03/18/2008 11:26:29 PM PDT by girlangler

2 posted on 03/18/2008 11:30:41 PM PDT by NewJerseyJoe (Rat mantra: "Facts are meaningless! You can use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!")

Great article. I still can not fathom how anyone can read the Bill of Rights and not understand that it is an individual right. Willful ignorance is the only answer.

3 posted on 03/18/2008 11:37:33 PM PDT by Feiny (Fruitloops are Gay Cheerios)

May God shepherd the court and see to it we always indeed have the right to keep AND bare arms!

4 posted on 03/18/2008 11:41:04 PM PDT by BellStar (In Arab culture and under Islamic law, if your father is a Muslim, so are you Obama!)

Excerpt: "That would leave only Justices Breyer, Ginsberg and Souter’s votes in support of the District’s gun ban."

...and Stevens.

5 posted on 03/18/2008 11:51:22 PM PDT by unspun (Mike Huckabee: Government's job is "protect us, not have to provide for us." Duncan Hunter knows.)

7 posted on 03/19/2008 12:01:52 AM PDT by Slip18

Looking me in the eye, he said simply, “I had no choice.”

If only every American understood what this man understands.

God bless him.

8 posted on 03/19/2008 12:16:48 AM PDT by EternalVigilance ("We're surrounded by screeching McPod people." - Don Joe)

I have always interpreted the wording to mean “individual” right. Based solely on the wording. It can be taken for granted that state militias will be armed, so those few words, set off by commas, MUST refer to the general public. With me it's purely semantics-—and my S&W M&P.

10 posted on 03/19/2008 1:21:38 AM PDT by singfreedom

Beautifully put!

“It’s a simple case to me,” Heller said, “It is wrong for the government to tell me that it is OK for me to have a gun during my work hours, but illegal for me to have a gun when the only thing I want to protect is me.”

At that point, a reporter interjected: “the Mayor (DC Mayor Adrian M. Fenty) says the handgun ban and his initiatives have significantly lowered violent crime in the District. How do you answer that, Mr. Heller?”

The initial answer certainly wasn’t expected – Dick Heller laughed. Ruefully.

Pointing at the Mayor who was making his way across the plaza, surrounded by at least six DC police officers, Heller said, “the Mayor doesn’t know what he’s talking about.”

“He doesn’t walk on the street like an average citizen. Look at him; he travels with an army of police officers as bodyguards – to keep him safe. But he says that I don’t have the right to be a force of one to protect myself. Does he look like he thinks the streets are safe?”

15 posted on 03/19/2008 5:17:13 AM PDT by Travis McGee (---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)

“the Mayor ... travels with an army of police officers as bodyguards – to keep him safe

Armed police officers, I would guess.

20 posted on 03/19/2008 6:51:00 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)

I thought the “threshold” question was when it would be good to put the Second Amendment into its intended use.

23 posted on 03/19/2008 7:57:32 AM PDT by wastedyears (More Maiden coming up in a few months!)

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