Posted on 06/28/2015 8:35:07 AM PDT by rktman
It appears that, until the nation’s highest court decides to protect the expressly enumerated Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms as strongly as it does non-enumerated rights like gay marriage and abortion, law-abiding American gun owners are simply left to watch lower courts unravel the Constitution and our fundamental, individual right to keep and bear arms in decisions like Bonidy.
(Excerpt) Read more at gunalizer.com ...
Yeah right....soon as those monkeys fly out of John Roberts butt......
The SC perhaps thinks that it, wrapped up in traditional probity can pronounce anything it FEELS good about and life will just coast along as if no line were crossed...but it cannot. A line has been crossed and the elites have thrown away their authority. They don’t know it yet but they have none now...except that which comes out of a gun...that’s what it is down to now. That is where we are.
The case in question is whether a US Post Office parking lot is considered a “government building” for purposes of banning firearms. The 10th Court of Appeals ruled that it is. The result is that, according to this court, you can be arrested for having and leaving a gun in your car as you go into the post office.
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HA, Dave, I beat you to it.
Will be interesting to watch them try to enforce it here, since ‘Castle Doctrine’ also covers vehicles too.
The main concern is their own employees “going postal”.
When interpretation isn’t about trying to determine what originalists intended, and turns into an exercise in justifying what you want it to mean, it’s over. And that’s where we are today.
Saw that after I posted.
Will be interesting to watch them try to enforce it here, since ‘Castle Doctrine’ also covers vehicles too.
Good comment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Tymkovich
58 years old
Appointed by George W. Bush, assumed office April 1, 2003.
Tymkovich dissented on the parking lot: "Thus, I think it incontestable that the Second Amendment applies outside of home self-defense. Violence occurs outside the home, and to call the need for self-defense most acute in the home is to acknowledge it exists elsewhere. Confrontations do not just occur in the home, and hunting never does. And clarifying the presumptive lawfulness of firearms regulations in schools and government buildings would be unnecessary if the Amendment had no force outside the home."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_M._Ebel
74-75 years old
Appointed by Ronald Reagan, in office April 20, 1988 – January 16, 2006. assumed senior status, 2006.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_A._Phillips
54 years old
Former Democrat Wyoming Attorney General.
Appointed by Barack Obama, assumed office July 9, 2013
I included the PDF link, but assembled more information in post #31.
We need to write computer software to replace these overpaid black-robed clowns.
We have enough data to do it.
Did Tymkovich really reference the hunting section of the 2nd? Sheesh.
Yup. A right “guaranteed” to not be infringed on by the govt has no standing. Uh, what? A perceived right does have standing. See how easy that is?
Why not just use a Magic 8-Ball?
It appears many postal workers didn’t pay attention either. It’s almost as if laws don’t apply to criminals!
So, the court has ruled that gay marriages also can be banned in the parking lots.
Indeed
I started to convert the PDF to HTML, but got about halfway through and figured I was wasting my time. This is going to be appealed. The Supreme Court of Feral Clowns is going to eventually have to rule on it.
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