http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3523274
Interestingly, DU is treating this positively so far...has hell frozen over?
Anarchists want to be armed too.
Held:
1. The Second Amendment protects an individual right to possess a
firearm unconnected with service in a militia, and to use that arm for
traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home.
Pp. 2–53.
(a) The Amendment’s prefatory clause announces a purpose, but
does not limit or expand the scope of the second part, the operative
clause. The operative clause’s text and history demonstrate that it
connotes an individual right to keep and bear arms.
That's the dirty secret of liberals. Most of them are not opposed to ownership of guns.... they are only opposed to YOU (conservatives/moralists/religious people) owning guns.
I have heard they’re pretty pro-gun over there. (Amazing what can happen when Dick Cheney controls the shadow government from his undisclosed location for a few years ... ‘rats start to understand why the RKBA is actually important.)
Just a few DUmmies, who I’m sure will be tombstoned shortly.
But for the most part, they don’t have much to say. Only a handful of posts. Less than 20 posts on the 2 threads I could find.
There's several more Heller discussions over at DU on their Guns forum.
DU has a very vocal pro-gun clique that dominates their gun forums.
I actually scan some of their 2nd Amendment threads occasionally. There are actually some very articulate pro-gun posters over there who just happen to be morons on almost everything else.
I haven't gone over there to read anything (today is a happy day that I don't want to spoil, and I have, like, work to do at some point), BUT I would suspect that their "reasoning" is something along the following lines:
"Thank Gaia and her chief channeler ALGOR: now our right to buy an icky, fully automatic sniper rifle bullet hose killing machine is intact, and we'll be able to prevent Bushitler's fascist storm troopers from dragging us away to a torture cell in Gitmo for jaywalking or spitting on the sidewalk."
C'mon, its DU - that's about the upper limit on reasoning for them.