[Redcloak]

Ya gotta love that "rattlesnake" reference!

[Amerigomag]

The majority falls prey to the delusion—popular in some circles--that ordinary people are too careless and stupid to own guns, and we would be far better off leaving all weapons in the hands of professionals on the government payroll. But the simple truth—born of experience—is that tyranny thrives best where government need not fear the wrath of an armed people.

Spot on Justice Kozinski!

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed—where the government refuses to stand for reelection and silences those who protest; where courts have lost the courage to oppose, or can find no one to enforce their decrees. However improbable these contingencies may seem today, facing them unprepared is a mistake a free people get to make only once.

I love that qoute.

[Kevin Curry]

However improbable these contingencies may seem today, facing them unprepared is a mistake a free people get to make only once.

And that tyranny likely will arise first in California, the state that is simultanously moderating its attitude toward the illegal use of drugs, passing the nation's most comprehensive hate crime legislation that will give gay activists the power of government to punish dissenting voices, and disarming its citizenry.

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[philman_36]

This certainly turns the heat up a notch.
The panel’s labored effort to smother the Second Amendment by sheer body weight has all the grace of a sumo wrestler trying to kill a rattlesnake by sitting on it—and is just as likely to succeed.
What a mental image that conjures up.

[madison46]

The sheer lack of commentarty from folks living during that time and directly involved with the Consitutiton and Bill of Rights is Amazing. They had to dig and dig and dig hard to come up with that crappy ruling.

All the 5th had to do was read the Founding Fathers.