Posted on 03/21/2008 10:02:28 PM PDT by Clairity
As shoot-outs go, the Supreme Court had a famous one Tuesday during oral arguments over the constitutionality of Washington D.C.'s handgun ban. The smoke won't clear until the High Court issues its decision, but the debate this week augurs well for a conclusion that the Second Amendment guarantees an individual right to bear arms.
Judging by Tuesday argument, the High Court has a majority in support of the circuit court opinion. Chief Justice John Roberts asked why the Framers included the word "people" if the Amendment only applied to militias. Justice Antonin Scalia discussed the importance the Framers attached to providing citizens the means to protect against tyrannical government. Justice Anthony Kennedy, often the Court's swing vote, informed all in attendance that "In my view, there's a general right to bear arms quite without reference to the militia either way."
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Interesting screen name. :)
BTTT
DC has a liberal public abortion financing law and that'll lose too.
Guess Ruthy would rather have guns than lose abortions.
She and the pukes at the Washington Post have this approach to live births that suggests they'd prefer that they not happen.
If Ruthy can concoct an argument that simply dispenses with the DC gun law while leaving the DC city council in place, she'll do that. In fact, such a proposed decision is probably being prepared by her friends over at Planned Parenthood as we speak.
You aren’t the Clarity of old are you? I kinda liked that guy.
In 1966 the U.S.S.C. under Justice Warren concocted the now infamous "Miranda" decision out of whole cloth. At the time, the Court had left open the option that Congress had the right to correct the decision if it wished. Years later, Congress did indeed attempt to alter the Miranda decision, but by then the U.S.S.C. wouldn't budge. The reasoning, (cynically IMO) was then that the Miranda decision was part of the fabric of legal rights, or something along that lines.
My hope is that in this case, because guns have been so long a part of our culture, and the desire to own guns for protection is deeply cherished, that the Court could reason similarly, and recognize that the possession of firearms in deeply embedded and should not be altered. (Of course, the best reason is to simply follow the Constitution.)
The 2nd Amendment is not for hunting or for home defense...this is the real reason why the power hungry elitists despise guns in the hands of citizens.
Does this mean we can go back to all the law schools and laugh at the constitutional law professors who tried to intentionally teach the second amendment wrong?
Which makes the founding of the United States even more miraculous than most people realize. A confluence of Men who came up with a concept of citizen legislators, people who would act as public servants, and then return to their lives. Quite possibly the very best example of this is George Washington. He was offered the position of "King" and he turned it down, instead he returned to Mt Vernon.
That sound we can hear if we listen carefully enough are the Founding Fathers spinning in their graves, over what we now have in Washington, DC.
Mark
I always did.
A. Typical Bull Shite wouldn't work.
B. They were killers, so everyone was on their best behavior.
C. They benefited from the great, good and improving liberty of dueling that culled the cowardly bullshite-ers from the male population. Just think how much better our country would be now if BSers could be called out at dawn?
Has anyone pointed out;
The reason W.D.C. has such a high crime rate
is because they advertise that all of the citizens are UNARMED!!!!
????????
What do you IF we listen carefully? You pretty much have to wear muffs and plugs to not hear it.
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