Posted on 07/17/2025 5:18:53 AM PDT by marktwain
Unsympathetic defendants make for bad precedents. This is what happened in the Rahimi case, where the Supreme Court opened the door a crack, allowing judges to believe they can create more exceptions to Second Amendment rights. Rahimi is cited as the reason for the upholding of the Gun Free School Zone Act in the Fifth Circuit.
On January 29, 2023, 25-year-old Ahmed Adballa Allam had been living and traveling around the United States in his father’s Toyota RAV4 since July of 2022. He had purchased an AR-15 type rifle in Pennsylvania on the way to California. He had traveled to California and then to Texas sometime in early January 2023. Allam insisted on camping in the RAV4 near St. Anthony Cathedral Basilica School or near Temple Emanuel, a Jewish Synagogue in Beaumont, Texas.
The principal of the school was concerned about Allam’s actions and called the police several times per day. School staff and parents repeatedly contacted Allam and asked him to leave. Members of the Synagogue also asked him to leave several times. Until Allam was arrested, he had been contacted by police upwards of nine times. From 12newsnow.com:
On January 29, 2023, Beaumont Police received multiple calls about a suspicious vehicle around St. Anthony Cathedral Basilica School and Temple Emanuel. The callers said a man in a black Toyota Rav 4 with New York license plates was parked across the street and staying there for hours and even days at a time.
On January 29, Allam started to move the SUV from its parked position and was immediately stopped for a traffic violation. The officer called for backup. After failing to comply with officers’ instructions, Allam was arrested, and the SUV was searched as part of an inventory.
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The “Fifth” is just trying to piss off the Supremes and start trampling the Bill of Rights.
Moral of the story: When you invite “Ahmed Adballa Allam” types into your country, everything gets turned inside out, and you wind up with “Gun Free” zones endangering everyone except the shooters.
Does this mean that absolutely noone should be carrying a gun within the confines of a school zone. Asking for a friend.
“school zone” needs to be massively re-defined.
In many built up areas, there are MANY schools. If you call a 1/4 mile perimiter from the school, a “school zone” that can effectively encompass massive chunks of a city. Including many houses and residential buildings.
Maybe if they renamed these “Govt and Criminal Only Free Fire Zones” and “victim dis-armament zones”?
It’s a safe bet for a school shooting in the Fifth Circuit. Even with security and LE, students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida, and the Uvalde, Texas school were massacred.
I find it interesting that the First Amendment states that “Congress shall make no law,” while the Second Amendment states “shall not be infringed.”
The courts have made it their charge to continuously trample our rights, and on First Amendment grounds, they could argue they aren’t Congress and aren’t “making” laws but interpreting them, even if the interpretation is asinine.
Meanwhile, the Second Amendment very clearly states “shall not be infringed,” but both Congress and the courts have been infringing for decades.
It’s almost like our Founders knew what they were doing.
“Does this mean that absolutely noone should be carrying a gun within the confines of a school zone. Asking for a friend.”
There is/was a case where a person, owned a home within a “school zone”. He was seen on his property with a gun. Police came took his gun and he is/ was prosecuted with gun in school zone..
Yup.
Is it the 5th that is super liberal? Or is that the 9th? Can’t remember- but since when is being defenseless “constitutional”?
Instead of gun free Zions, how about we have murderous criminal free zones by arming teachers to keep the murderous criminals from infiltrating the schools,and endangering our vulnerable kids? IF gov demands that kids attend schools, then Schools have a responsibility,to protect our kids!
Kids used to be able to carry guns to school, and there were even shooting classes- don’t recall c4iminals targeting schools back then b3cause they knew they would be met with equal firepower if they tried! Only since the creation of gun free zones have cowardly criminals zeroed in on schools for the most part.
The Regal Judicial Branch continues to reinterpret the Constitution .. in favor of Democrats/Leftists.
Gun Free School Death Zone
Gun Free School Zone laws do not prevent guns in schools. It merely gives the police authority to arrest people who DO carry guns near schools. Same as speeding laws do not prevent people from speeding, It gives authority for the police to arrest speeders.Same as all other laws.
I saw a school sign one that said, “Our teachers are armed to protect the students.”
I’d like to see those signs all over the US. Cowards attacking schools will become a thing of the past if teachers are armed b3cause the cowardly shooters won’t dare attack knowing they might die in seconds. They will however pikely,target other vulnerable places (rem3mber the postal shooting sprees not so long ago?). But our kids will be far safer in schools if teachers arm and train!
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