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States' Gun Rights: The Next Constitutional Battlefield (2nd and 10th Amendments)

Wednesday, May 13, 2009 9:09:41 PM · by 2ndDivisionVet · 95 replies · 2,359+ views

Time Magazine ^ | May 12, 2009 | Hilary Hylton

The right to bear arms is famously and specifically referenced in the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Alas, for advocates of the right, the language of the amendment gets tangled up in the regulating of militias and the interpretation of commas. Now a multistate movement is trying to find more robust constitutional support in another amendment, which makes no mention of weaponry at all. The 10th Amendment declares, "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

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Texas State Sovereignty Shot Down on Parlimentary Procedure (RAT Senfronia Thompson)

Tuesday, May 19, 2009 8:23:00 PM · by NoobRep · 76 replies · 2,241+ views

Dallas Morning News ^ | 5/19/09 | Christy Hoppe

Just as Rep. Brandon Creighton, R-Conroe, was introducing the House resolution when Rep. Senfronia Thompson, D-Houston, raised the procedural point that shot it down. She said that "states rights" was used as a banner for segregation and Jim Crow laws, but that was not her immediate concern. Thompson said she opposed the resolution because it, and others like it, are feeding movements that challenge federal authorities to regulate guns, taxes or fund needed state programs such as children's health and unemployment insurance. "I don't want to see that used as a mechanism to block that assistance," Thompson said.