Ping
But, unfortunately it won't.
It should start the framing of the next election cycle - the Democrat Liberal Socialists want to take your Constitutional Rights away from you. Along with your job, your property, your wealth, your choice about health care...
So how Ms. sotomayor plan to get around the Fourteenth Amendment?
Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
Section 1.
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and
subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the
United States and of the State wherein they reside.
No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge
the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States;
nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or
property, without due process of law; nor deny to any
person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
This is the new liberal logic. The argument doesnt make sense. I wish George Washington was still around.
The militia is the natural defense of a free country
against sudden foreign invasions, domestic insurrections,
and domestic usurpations of power by rulers. It is against
sound policy for a free people to keep up large military
establishments and standing armies in time of peace, both
from the enormous expenses, with which they are attended,
and the facile means, which they afford to ambitious and
unprincipled rulers, to subvert the government, or trample
upon the rights of the people. The right of the citizens to
keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the
palladium of the liberties of the republic; since it offers
a strong moral check against usurpation and arbitrary power
of rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful
in the first instance, enable the people to resist and
triumph over them.[70]
as long as the state decides you can have one.
By her reasserting the position that the Second Amendment does not apply to the States, Sotomayer just made sure of another million guns sold to conservatives trapped in Blue States.
Besides, even tho I haven't read the Constitutions of all of the 50 states, I think it's safe to say they their own state constitutions make it very clear that our right to bear arms is sacrosanct -- & many of them are probably even stricter that the US Constitution when it comes to prohibiting the state governments from infringing on those rights.
I say let's take a look @ how she spins this issue.
The Bill of Rights was not extended to the States by Congress. The Amenders intended it to apply just to the federal government and it was the promise the Federalists had made to the Anti-Federalists in order to secure the ratification of the Constitution.
Its principle stated intention, because of widespread fear of an armed federal government, was to protect the states’s ability to form militias. In order for them to form militias it was necessary to acknowledge the right to bear arms within the people as a whole.
Barron v. Baltimore was the Supreme Court case during the Marshall Court affirming that the intention of the BoR was control of the federal government.
No one, excepting Alexander Hamilton, understood or explained the Constitution better than Marshall.
lets see how “support anyone” NRA reacts to this.....you can not trust rats EVER and maybe some day they’ll learn that....
Throughout most of American history gun control laws were openly used as a method of keeping blacks and Hispanics ”in their place”, and to quiet the fears of the white population. For decades, "gun-control" helped keep black people defenseless against lynching. Between 1882 and 1968, 3,446 blacks were murdered in the U.S. by lynching. More recently gun control laws were also used against other “suspect” groups like Catholics and Jews.
Today it is not politically correct to openly advocate keeping suspect groups “in their place”. Laws are now written to appear neutral. The racists and elitists camouflage their intent while accomplishing the same goal. Today it isn’t just Blacks, Jews, Catholics and other “undesirable” groups the wish to strip of their human rights. They want to strip anyone who isn’t politically powerful, or rich, or famous of his human rights.
Sotomayor, the racist judge being considered to become the SECOND Hispanic to become a Supreme Court justice, supports these racist, elitist laws. She is hostile to civil rights as well as the concept of equal treatment for all citizens. Her view that the Bill of Rights doesn’t apply to the States is the same view held by the Florida Supreme Court in 1941.
“I know something of the history of this legislation. The original Act of 1893 was passed when there was a great influx of negro laborers in this State drawn here for the purpose of working in turpentine and lumber camps. The same condition existed when the Act was amended in 1901 and the Act was passed for the purpose of disarming the negro laborers and to thereby reduce the unlawful homicides that were prevalent in turpentine and saw-mill camps and to give the white citizens in sparsely settled areas a better feeling of security. The statute was never intended to be applied to the white population and in practice has never been so applied." - Watson v. Stone, 4 So.2d 700, 703 (Fla. 1941)
Tell me some NEWS.