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Supreme Court Urged to Take on Gun Rights
The Associated Press ^
| 7/3/03
| Gina Holland
Posted on 07/05/2003 10:36:00 PM PDT by LdSentinal
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To: coloradan
... and "gun-control advocates were dismayed" but the article doesn't also state that "gun rights groups were elated".
To: ExSoldier
I think we're pretty much screwed.
We waited forty years for a good court to get a good ruling and what happens? The lawsuits are going to be decided by a clinton court.
You would think the last three judgements by the U.S. Supreme Court would have given the people pushing these lawsuits a chance to think aboiut what they're doing but I guess not.
You would think they would have paused for one second to think about who the last president to confirm a Justice was.
The way things are going, I think we're going to lose by a 5 to 4.
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posted on
07/06/2003 7:28:59 AM PDT
by
Shooter 2.5
(Don't punch holes in the lifeboat)
To: Frohickey
Silviera handed the 9th an easy decision, and the court took advantage of the opportunity to load its opinion up with anti-RKBA dicta.
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posted on
07/06/2003 7:32:13 AM PDT
by
Roscoe
To: dhuffman@awod.com
The 'law' is what the Supremes say it is and our fate is what it is. Better to find out that we are subjects now than to leave it to our children to start over. Sadly, I find myself agreeing. The Court's last two rulings have just about rendered me speechless.
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posted on
07/06/2003 7:37:11 AM PDT
by
backhoe
To: Ken H
States do not have God given Rights.
You've partly hit upon the whole banana. God given Rights! If "religion" is "out" then so is God. If God is "out" then so are our unalienable Rights and government is the dispenser of all Rights.
All of this "morality" hullabaloo is merely a designed smoke screen to take away unalienable Rights.
JMO
To: LdSentinal
This is the worst SC I have ever seen.
Let us hope that they don't "take on" this sensitive subjuct!
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posted on
07/06/2003 8:01:03 AM PDT
by
mickie
To: Roscoe
Only well trained goverment offishuls like me need danjerus guns.
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posted on
07/06/2003 8:38:54 AM PDT
by
Travis McGee
(----- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com -----)
To: Bommer
I served seven years as a USMC officer. I swore to uphold and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. I care not what the Supremes may rule, or GWB or any future president, or UN, may decree re guns. If they decree or pass laws requiring the registration, turn in, etc. of my weapons, I WILL NOT OBEY.
We, the sheeple, have allowed the courts, and legislatures usurp our Constitutional rights so many times, in so many ways, they think they can do just about anything to us and we will just tuck our collective tails and sulk in the corner. Enough is enough. Vote the bassturds out, be they republican or democrat.
To: Tahoe3002
The way I see it is this: Humans are the most intelligent lifeform on this planet. Therefore, I have the right to protect and defend myself, my home, and my family to the best of my abilities. My abilities means using a pistol, rifle or shotgun.
To: Travis McGee
This court is not the one to send an indivdiual rights case too. There are consistently 5 votes for group rights and "transcendent" liberty which translated could mean, the transcendent right to live in a society FREE of weapons.
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posted on
07/06/2003 9:33:37 AM PDT
by
jwalsh07
To: Orangedog
"Given recent rulings handed down by the Nine, I'm not certain that I want them to hear any gun rights cases." Yeah, at least until Bush is able to name a couple of Justices.
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posted on
07/06/2003 9:41:48 AM PDT
by
boris
(The deadliest Weapon of Mass Destruction in History is a Leftist With a Word Processor)
To: Tahoe3002
I took that same oath, Tahoe.
I agree.
There will be many "cold, dead fingers" in this country if they try.
To: Orangedog
Given recent rulings handed down by the Nine, I'm not certain that I want them to hear any gun rights cases. My sentiments exactly.
MM
To: LdSentinal
After this last batch of rulings by our Supreme Court aka
New Masters, I have zero faith they will render the correct decision based on the Constitution.
There are no "emanations of penumbras" there to divine, therefore they will merely throw out the clear meaning of the original documents, Founding Fathers' commentary, such judicial lions as Chief Justice Story and centuries-long established precedent and law. Instead, they will come up with some new mumbo-jumbo saying none of the above meant what was plainly wrote and said, and therefore they are changing it to what they want it to say!
A pox on these jerks - purposely leaving out Rhenquist, Scalia and Thomas, of course!
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posted on
07/06/2003 10:25:22 AM PDT
by
Gritty
To: jwalsh07
This supreme court could find a right to a guaranteed living wage of 100K per annum and a free house right behind the penumbra of abortion and sodomy.
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posted on
07/06/2003 2:20:20 PM PDT
by
Travis McGee
(----- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com -----)
To: Gritty
"...therefore they will merely throw out the clear meaning of the original documents, Founding Fathers' commentary, ...." Justice O'Connor said in her recent tv interview that she does not normally refer to the original documents, etc. -- since things like DNA, night vison, thermal imaging. etc. were not known then.
I was disapointed, since the original documents show the intent and basis for the wording.(only saw a short portion of her interview.)
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posted on
07/06/2003 2:30:26 PM PDT
by
gatex
To: LdSentinal
The court's past rulings on Second Amendment gun rights many in the 1800s are a mess that should be straightened out... BIAS alert!
That "mess" is quite consistent about the individual right to bear arms, if I'm not mistaken.
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To: boris
It takes 60 votes to get anyone on the bench and some of the "Republicans" in the senate don't want the Constitution interpreted as it was written. Senate leadership hasn't even made the dems mount a real filibuster on the current crop of judicial nominees. I hope Bush is just "keeping his powder dry" and has some real strategery ready when a seat for the Nine does open up.
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posted on
07/06/2003 9:01:59 PM PDT
by
Orangedog
(Soccer-Moms are the biggest threat to your freedoms and the republic !)
To: Orangedog
Ditto ,p-i-n-g!
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posted on
07/06/2003 9:24:58 PM PDT
by
Hinoki Cypress
(At 53, it's the miles, not the years.)
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