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To: Roccus

Gotta love it. My range is going to be noisy this evening.


110 posted on 06/26/2008 9:54:31 AM PDT by Current Occupant (IF we can't drill our way out of this, then we will not survive as a NATION!!!!!)
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To: Current Occupant; All
More from Scalia;

"We know of no other enumerated constitutional right whose core protection has been subjected to a freestanding 'interest-balancing' approach. The very enumeration of the right takes out of the hands of government—even the Third Branch of Government—the power to decide on a case-by-case basis whether the right is really worth insisting upon. A constitutional guarantee subject to future judges’ assessments of its usefulness is no constitutional guarantee at all. Constitutional rights are enshrined with the scope they were understood to have when the people adopted them, whether or not future legislatures or (yes) even future judges think that scope too broad.

120 posted on 06/26/2008 9:59:51 AM PDT by Roccus (Tribal name; Vegetarian...Native American for "bad hunter")
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To: Current Occupant
"Gotta love it. My range is going to be noisy this evening."

As soon as Fox News announced the decision, I let the recorder capture the details -- while I stepped out back to my range and put a celebratory round in the x-ring in honor of each of the five Justices who (on the 2nd Amendment at least) have their heads on straight...

148 posted on 06/26/2008 10:29:26 AM PDT by TXnMA
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