[bamahead]

Honestly sounds like Dianne Feinstein herself ghost-wrote the decision...

[Smokin' Joe]

...the court is not persuaded that assault weapons are commonly possessed based on the absolute number of those weapons owned by the public. Even accepting that there are 8.2 million assault weapons in the civilian gun stock, as the plaintiffs claim, assault weapons represent no more than 3% of the current civilian gun stock, and ownership of those weapons is highly concentrated in less than 1% of the U.S. population.

What gets me about this, is that there is a subset of the population which comprises little more than 1, at most three percent of the overall population.

The members of that subset tend to be geographically concentrated in relatively small areas, likely well under 1% of the US land area.

Yet the remainder of the population is considered anathema if they do not regard that unusual subset to be "normal" and accord it rights above and beyond the remainder of the population.

How can that (less than) 3% of the population be "normal" in its enclaves, yet three percent of firearms be unusual to the point they can be restricted despite the 2nd Amendment?

I know, we're dealing with Liberals/Communists/hoplophobes.

[Pollster1]

http://stlouis.cbslocal.com/2014/08/12/gun-sales-up-across-area/

BRIDGETON, MO. (KMOX) - Gun sales are up across St. Louis since the shooting of Michael Brown and subsequent nights of violence.

Sales have quadrupled at ‘Metro Shooting’ in Bridgeton according to owner Steven King. He says sales have mainly been to men, but not all:

“Probably a dozen or two dozen guns to females, single mothers. We’ve sold to black people, white people . . .

He says nearly 100 percent say they are buying them for defensive purposes. “They’re buying AR-15s, home defense shotguns, handguns, personal defense handguns something for conceal carry.” said King.

[bert]

would hanging the judge be cruel and unusual?

[nathanbedford]

The available statistics indicate that assault weapons are used disproportionately to their ownership in the general public and, furthermore, cause more injuries and more fatalities when they are used.

My information, although concededly secondhand, is to the effect that this assertion is flatly wrong, that these guns are rarely used in crimes. But let's put the question of truth aside from moment and look at the judge's logic. If these guns in fact are used in the commission of crimes that means that she is forcing innocent law-abiding civilians into victimhood because she is depriving them of the necessary means to defend themselves against these advanced weapons. She admits as much:

Finally, despite the plaintiffs’ claims that they would like to use assault weapons for defensive purposes, assault weapons are military-style weapons designed for offensive use, and are equally, or possibly even more effective, in functioning and killing capacity as their fully automatic versions.

She is forcing our fellow citizens to go naked before their enemies. The only justification for this is to believe that the ban guns will actually remove guns from the hands of criminals. Gun bans do no such thing, if anything, they remove guns from the hands of innocent victims and grant criminals a monopoly in their use.

A look at this judge's photograph and the knowledge that she was appointed during the Clinton administration leads one to believe that she is one of Hillary's lesbians who is typical of leftist judges who are systematically departing from constitutional exegesis in favor of a judge crafted leftist tyranny. In imposing that tyranny leftist judges must somehow turn away from the Constitution and redefine it making it mean precisely the opposite of its original purpose. Here is an example of how leftist judges routinely do this:

Upon review of all the parties’ evidence, the court seriously doubts that the banned assault long guns are commonly possessed for lawful purposes, particularly self-defense in the home, which is at the core of the Second Amendment right, and is inclined to find the weapons fall outside Second Amendment protection as dangerous and unusual.

If she can confine the right to keep and bear arms to "self-defense in the home," she can proceed to eviscerate the right to keep and bear arms for all other purposes and ultimately even for the purpose of in home self-defense. Redefine the Constitution and then, when it ceases to have any practical meaning, simply write it out of existence.

[N. Theknow]

Someone should ask the judge how many home invasion firefights she has been in that have convinced her to “feel” this way about AR’s and AK’s.

[CAluvdubya]

A Q-Tip is dangerous and unusual when handled by an idiot!

Sick of these liberal judges making ruling based on their liberal beliefs and not actual rule of law!

[unread]

Well....bitching and blustering isn't going to get us anywhere... Its well PAST time to act..!

This judge is attacking our country, home, family and everything we hold dear... To this so-called judge, our Constitution is nothing more then toilet paper...

Until the commie judges began to personally feel the pain of their treason and lies they will continue to legislate from the bench and rob the people of their liberty...

Was it Jefferson who said: "Where the people fear the Government you have tyranny; Where the Government fears the people, you have liberty....

[lavaroise]

So I guess only big guys who can heft a musket and reload can bd armed. Screw the handicaped and the women, they do not need high cap and safety handling features.

[unread]

Part of the "Give Me Liberty" speech by Patrick Henry. March 23, 1775...

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past. And judging by the past, I wish to know what there has been in the conduct of the British ministry for the last ten years to justify those hopes with which gentlemen have been pleased to solace themselves and the House. Is it that insidious smile with which our petition has been lately received? Trust it not, sir; it will prove a snare to your feet. Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss. Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our petition comports with those warlike preparations which cover our waters and darken our land. Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation? Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled that force must be called in to win back our love? Let us not deceive ourselves, sir. These are the implements of war and subjugation; the last arguments to which kings resort. I ask gentlemen, sir, what means this martial array, if its purpose be not to force us to submission? Can gentlemen assign any other possible motive for it? Has Great Britain any enemy, in this quarter of the world, to call for all this accumulation of navies and armies? No, sir, she has none. They are meant for us: they can be meant for no other. They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains which the British ministry have been so long forging. And what have we to oppose to them? Shall we try argument? Sir, we have been trying that for the last ten years. Have we anything new to offer upon the subject? Nothing. We have held the subject up in every light of which it is capable; but it has been all in vain. Shall we resort to entreaty and humble supplication? What terms shall we find which have not been already exhausted? Let us not, I beseech you, sir, deceive ourselves. Sir, we have done everything that could be done to avert the storm which is now coming on. We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and Parliament. Our petitions have been slighted; our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult; our supplications have been disregarded; and we have been spurned, with contempt, from the foot of the throne! In vain, after these things, may we indulge the fond hope of peace and reconciliation. There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be free-- if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending--if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained--we must fight! I repeat it, sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms and to the God of hosts is all that is left us!

They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot? Sir, we are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. The millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us. Besides, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable--and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come.

It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace-- but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!

[CSM]

“and the homosexual culture is highly concentrated in less than 1% of the U.S. population.”

Therfore, we must ban same sex marriage....oh wait!

[Uncle Miltie]

This gun is DANGEROUS AND UNUSUAL:

[Personal Responsibility]

“...fall outside Second Amendment protection as dangerous and unusual arms...”

Funny, I couldn’t locate the “dangerous and unusual” clause in the Constitution.

[TigersEye]

I beg to diffah. This is a dangerous and unusual firearm.

As a bonus the projectiles carry little ballistic evidentiary value with them.

I own several.

[the OlLine Rebel]

“particularly self-defense in the home, which is at the core of the Second Amendment right, and is inclined to find the weapons fall outside Second Amendment protection as dangerous and unusual.”

%@#&)(&(*#%^%!$0!$!@#$

What garbage!

No, moron, 2ndA is NOT about “self-defense” in the home, it is about self- and community-defense against bad government. Like you. Get that through your head!

As for “unusual” - so, would a historic bayonet be so and somehow thus bannable to own? The Geneva may have banned its use in war but I am unaware that even collectors are prohibited from having them. Gee, in theory they could use them!

Where is this “dangerous and unusual” in the 2A?

[cherokee1]

Hey Judge-—even if you’re right about the one percent, which you’re wrong about, that is a mighty serious one percent and I’d suggest not coming to get them.

[itsahoot]

Good Rifle

Bad Rifle

Evil Rifle

[VerySadAmerican]

It makes me think things I don’t like thinking. Such as “I hope her home gets invaded by thugs with pistols and she only has a six shooter to defend herself.”

[wku man]

Hey...that's great. I have an AR and an AK. Come get 'em, bitches!

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

[reaganaut]

SMH ping

[WilliamRobert]

I saw her photo and thought...
I am glad I am not a liberal. All their women are ugly lesbians.
I cannot remember a good looking liberal woman, any suggestions?