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1 posted on 01/15/2020 7:47:08 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Seems to me the Kennedy was the one demanding concessions to get his vote.


2 posted on 01/15/2020 8:03:27 AM PST by riverrunner ( o the public,)
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To: Kaslin
Twelve years after the Supreme Court ruled that the right to keep and bear arms is an individual right "unconnected with service in a militia," the Second Amendment is in worse shape than ever.

Simply not correct.

Before Heller, the legal "consensus" was there was no right to keep and bear arms.

Since Heller, the Seventh Circuit has ruled there exists a right to bear arms outside the home, and Illinois has been forced to move to a "Shall Issue" permit.

In 2008, there were two "Constitutional Carry" states. Now there are 16.

In 2008, Wisconsin forbade any Concealed carry. Now they have one of the least restrictive shall issue permits in the nation.

In 2008, Iowa was may issue. Now it is shall issue.


5 posted on 01/15/2020 8:33:17 AM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: Kaslin

Let’s takk accountability for all. The bumpstock ban gave them rights to determine our defense. It is unconstitutional now as it was when signed.
As history repeats, the left and elite keep their guns and acquire more and more destructive ones.. and the law abiding citizens give up theirs.


6 posted on 01/15/2020 8:35:00 AM PST by momincombatboots (Ephesians 6... who you are really at war with)
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Did the NRA or GOA every speak out against stop and frisk in ny and such? It seems VA has gone default stop and frisk for a state, ie default prevent you from having a weapon in public.


7 posted on 01/15/2020 8:36:02 AM PST by Theoria (I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
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It wasn’t Scalia. That dicta was added because Stevens (who hated the Second Amendment with a passion) directly lobbied the weak kneed soy boy Kennedy and got Kennedy to demand the dicta as the price for his 5th vote. The lower courts latched on to the dicta (which isn’t binding) and have been treating it as the holding, ignoring what Heller says.

It is long past time to fix this mess. Kennedy is gone.


8 posted on 01/15/2020 8:39:08 AM PST by TexasGurl24
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“the Second Amendment is in worse shape than ever”

This author must be very young...


9 posted on 01/15/2020 8:46:07 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: Kaslin
An old saying among artists: "A fine painting takes two people — one to do the painting, and the other to stop him when it is done."

Same applies to this decision. But hey, no one is perfect. Scalia's ruling is not the problem; it is the left's stretching of the intent and redefining of words that is the problem.

12 posted on 01/15/2020 10:27:32 AM PST by Albion Wilde (It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it. --Douglas MacArthur)
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CONgress is their Daddy! The Supreme Court can only hear cases CONgress Allows it to hear, they are in Control and could have and should have fixed this a long time ago by Ordering the Judicial Branch to “remain silent” on this issue..


13 posted on 01/15/2020 1:17:39 PM PST by eyeamok
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