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To: Ken H
"When a judge assumes the power to decide which distinctions made in a statute are legitimate and which are not, he assumes the power to disapprove of any and all legislation, because all legislation makes distinctions."
-- Judge Robert Bork

You tell me what's more dangerous, Ken H, elected officials passing bad laws or unelected, appointed for life, activist judges.

We have more to fear from Justice Thomas and his 8 buddies on the USSC than we do from Congress. IMO.

56 posted on 07/10/2004 2:35:45 PM PDT by robertpaulsen
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To: robertpaulsen
"The Second Amendment was designed to allow states to defend themselves against a possibly tyrannical national government. Now that the federal government has stealth bombers and nuclear weapons, it is hard to imagine what people would need to keep in the garage to serve that purpose."
--Judge Robert Bork

We have more to fear from Justice Thomas and his 8 buddies on the USSC than we do from Congress. IMO.

Marshaling an impressive array of historical evidence, a growing body of scholarly commentary indicates that the "right to keep and bear arms" is, as the Amendment's text suggests, a personal right.

--Justice Clarence Thomas

Does robertpaulsen prefer the Second Amendment view of Judge Bork and congressional gun grabbers over the view of Justice Thomas?

58 posted on 07/10/2004 5:41:07 PM PDT by Ken H
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