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To: TigersEye

It was written by a left wing loon, and is therefore garbage in my opinion. Not even worth reading.


560 posted on 05/17/2012 3:34:11 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp (Partus Sequitur Patrem)
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To: DiogenesLamp
Tribe and Olson certainly are left-wing loons. I especially despise Olson's legal opinion denying the 2nd Amendment right to keep and bear arms.

Former SG Ted Olson suggests Heller could impact broad prohibitions on felon gun rights

[L]ittle attention has been paid to the effect that the court's decision could have on regulations defining which groups of people can be excluded from gun ownership. "The Court might decide there are some classes of felons that ought to be treated differently from other classes of felons," a former solicitor general, Theodore Olson, said in an interview on Thursday about the prospect that the Supreme Court may eventually permit felons to own guns.

In interviews, several legal experts say that lower court judges should interpret the Supreme Court's decision in Heller to permit non-violent felons to own weapons. "Why not? I can't see why they shouldn't have gun rights if they don't have a record of violent crime," a lawyer who financed the Heller case, Robert Levy, said. "If the nature of their crime has nothing to do with the commission of violence than it's a pretty strange punishment that would deprive ex-felons of the ability to defend themselves."...


582 posted on 05/17/2012 3:47:52 PM PDT by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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