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To: BellStar

I think it will be a 5-4 ruling, with the majority being pro Second Amendment as an individual right above and beyond one’s association with a state militia. That was clearly the Founders’ intent.

Here is the 5-4 as I see it:

5: Roberts, Alito, Thomas, Scalia, Kennedy
4: Ginsburg, Breyer, Stevens, Souter


15 posted on 03/19/2008 4:33:02 AM PDT by ought-six
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To: ought-six

I’m rereading it now. I’m not so sure about Stevens. He is probing for the difference between “shall not be infringed” and “shall not be unreasonably infringed”.

This is exciting! This is truly historic! We are living in interesting times. I watched a man take his first step on the moon. I watched the Soviet Union fall. I watched the millennium pass.

I expect they will decide it is an individual right. But they will add that it is subject to reasonable restrictions. And they will hopefully that the amendment encompasses two types of rights:
The right for the states to have a militia and
Individual rights of self defense of family and neighbors


18 posted on 03/19/2008 4:49:54 AM PDT by djf (She's filing her nails while they're draggin the lake....)
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To: ought-six

Ginsburg may surprise you, she was pretty hard on Dellinger.


62 posted on 03/19/2008 9:57:40 AM PDT by Abundy
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