[NewJerseyJoe]

Look at the tripe coming out from the Brady bunch.........

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http://bradycampaign.org/media/release.php?release=878

News Release
Statement Of Brady President Paul Helmke On DC Circuit's Ruling Striking Down DC Handgun Law

For Immediate Release:
03-09-2007

Contact Communications:
(202) 289-7319

Washington, D.C. – Paul Helmke, President of the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, issued the following statement:

“The 2-1 decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in Parker v. District of Columbia striking down the District of Columbia’s handgun law is judicial activism at its worst. By disregarding nearly seventy years of U.S. Supreme Court precedent, two Federal judges have negated the democratically-expressed will of the people of the District of Columbia and deprived this community of a gun law it enacted thirty years ago and still strongly supports.

“This ruling represents the first time in American history that a Federal appeals court has struck down a gun law on Second Amendment grounds. While acknowledging that ‘reasonable restrictions’ to promote ‘the government’s interest in public safety’ are permitted by the Second Amendment, the two-judge majority substituted its policy preferences for those of the elected representatives of the District of Columbia. ”

[Tulsa Ramjet]

two Federal judges have negated the democratically-expressed will of the people of the District of Columbia

How about the will of those killed who didn't have a pistol, sister? And how does some episode of a nutcase shooting Reagan give you the right to keep other people from protecting themselves?? Crawl back to your gated community, the rest of us need to be armed and ready. And there is plenty of events noted on FR to show how some unsuspecting business owner or homeowner was able to protect themselves. Go live with the amish. Not that there is anything wrong with them.

[School of Rational Thought]

By disregarding nearly seventy years of U.S. Supreme Court precedent, If you ignore 70 years how years of precendent remain? Dread Scott - Supreme Court ignores x years of precedent.

[tcostell]

You know.. there's nothing those people can say that can bring me down after news like this. We are definitely winning this argument.

Hey Joe, what do you say I bring suit against the state of NJ for not issuing me a carry permit and cite the 14th amendment?

I just wish I would have thought of it sooner when Alito was still in Newark.

[goldstategop]

I love it how liberals complain about judicial activism when the courts rule AGAINST them. Anyway, the Brady Group is dead wrong - the rights of the people cannot be countermanded by the electorate. They admit of no popularity contest or the received opinion of the day. Liberals cannot ban guns outright because that would be popular or because they think guns no longer have a place in American society. The Constitution protects gun rights as nearly absolutely under the Second Amendment as it protects freedom of speech rights under the First Amendment.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus