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To: ZULU
But while a person has a constitutional right to own guns, that new right is not unlimited, Scalia wrote.

"new" right? Is this an error - did Scalia call it a "new" right?

That's rather ominous, actually - I still think we're begging for crumbs from the SCotUS table, they just happened to give us one THIS time.
6 posted on 06/26/2008 11:01:25 AM PDT by beezdotcom
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To: beezdotcom; Paul Ross
I suspect it's an error by the author (Randy Hall). ...a major one.
7 posted on 06/26/2008 11:02:55 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: beezdotcom
"But while a person has a constitutional right to own guns, that new right is not unlimited, Scalia wrote."

What Scalia actually wrote is this:

"Like most rights, the Second Amendment right is not unlimited. It is not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose..."

20 posted on 06/26/2008 11:38:50 AM PDT by Redbob ("WWJBD" ="What Would Jack Bauer Do?")
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To: beezdotcom

Didn’t he refer to modern guns in that sense?


35 posted on 06/26/2008 1:32:00 PM PDT by ZULU (Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts and guns made America great.)
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To: beezdotcom
"new" right? Is this an error - did Scalia call it a "new" right?

Justice Scalia most emphatically did not call the 2d Amendment new, this is deliberately sloppy writing on the part of the "journalist"...

the infowarrior

38 posted on 06/26/2008 4:59:21 PM PDT by infowarrior
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