"Where the Constitution establishes a right of the people, no organ of the government, including the courts, can legitimately take that right away from the people. All of our rights, every one of them, may become impediments to the efficient functioning of our government and our society from time to time, but fortunately they are locked in by the Constitution against permanent loss because of temporary impediments. The courts should enforce our individual rights guaranteed by our Constitution, not erase them."
Dear Senatrix Feinswine: "The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." Its too bad you don't like that, but until you muster the necessary votes to repeal the 2nd, you can simply kiss my a**.
"Constitutional interpretation cannot properly be based on whatever policy judgments we might make about the desirability of an armed populace, or the relevance of the Amendment's concern with citizen militias to modern times. Those who think the Second Amendment is a troublesome antique inappropriate to modern times can repeal it, as provided in Article V. That has been done before, as with legislative selection of Senators, and with Prohibition. There is a serious argument for its continued relevance, from those who think that the natural right to self defense, protected by the English Bill of Rights as well as the Second Amendment, is still important as a matter of policy."
"Though general history, like legislative history, cannot be used to supplant the words of the law, it informs us of what social problem the writers of the law intended to address. The problem the Founders sought to avoid was a disarmed populace. At the margins, the Second Amendment can be read various ways in various cases, but there is no way this Amendment, designed to assure an armed population, can be read to allow government to disarm the population."
The issue promises to become mixed up with election-year politics, just as the original ban — passed by a Democratic Congress and signed by President Clinton — helped fuel the Republican takeover of Congress in 1994.Signing on to an extension of the ban, the one that helped fuel the Republican takeover of Congress in 1994., could cause that same GOP to lose control in 2004.
Supporting gun control makes you lose elections. Opposing it makes you win.
Senatick Dianne Feinswine is afraid of the doomsday provision.
THEY BOTH SUCK
which effectively bans the AR 15 and criminalizes its possession.
I can tell you one thing, I may not be ready to take up arms in a major insurrection, but I sure as heck will never voluntarily surrender those arms to the likes of these SOB's.