Decision in gun owner's favor fans 2nd Amendment debate

The San Diego Union-Tribune ^ | November 18, 2001 | James P. Sweeney

[GOPJ]

The gunaphobics are worried their message is being rejected. Count on much back peddling over the next few years on second amendment issues. Every democrat will soon be a hunter.

Liberals tell us if we don't like a behavior it means we're afraid of it. It's time to show them their fear of guns is irrational. Gunaphobics need our understanding to get well.

[GOPJ]

The gunaphobics are worried their message is being rejected. Count on much back peddling over the next few years on second amendment issues. Every democrat will soon be a hunter.

Liberals tell us if we don't like a behavior it means we're afraid of it. It's time to show them their fear of guns is irrational. Gunaphobics need our understanding to get well.

[GOPJ]

The gunaphobics are worried their message is being rejected. Count on much back peddling over the next few years on second amendment issues. Every democrat will soon be a hunter.

Liberals tell us if we don't like a behavior it means we're afraid of it. It's time to show them their fear of guns is irrational. Gunaphobics need our understanding to get well.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

"a right subject to reasonable regulation" is not a right, but a privilege.

Would you say the same thing about the speech protections in Amendment #1?

[2nd_Ammendment_Defender]

I have recently become involved in a petition and I have been gathering signatures to petition John Ashcroft to nationally enforce the 2nd Amendment with Constitution burner states like California. Go to this internet site and look at the petition:

http://AshcroftPetition@KeepAndBearArms.com

Here's is your chance to do something besides complain about our system. Download this, print it out, and get anyone over 18, who is a U.S.A. citizen, to sign and mail it off to the listed address. Exercise your 1st Amendment rights to support the 2nd Amendment.

[wwjdn]

With the PATRIOT Act, I am more concerned about my RIGHT to own weapons. Our constitution has been almost completely erradicated, we may need guns to protect our selves from the Federal Government soon. I hope not, but it isn't looking good.

[FreeTally]

The U.S. Supreme Court, I truly believe, would rule that if only one person in a State can legally purchase/own a gun, then that is "reasonable regulations". It sounds absurd, but I have no hope of the SCOTUS rulling any State's gun laws to be unconstitutional.

[UnChained]

We have to fight for what is rightfuly ours the same way it was taken from us one brick at a time.

Ok where do I go to sign up? Is it possible that the country is doomed? I think that no matter what, the USA won't make it into either Heaven or Hell. I took the oath to defend the contitution from all enemies foreign and domestic but saving the constitution seems like a lost cause sometimes.

It may be that the real battle lies elsewhere, in the hearts of men who are blinded by their own sin and cannot see the truth no matter how persuasive we are about the clear meaning our founding documents..

[185JHP]

Contrary to Hollywood, there wasn't a whole lot of claim jumping in the old West, either.