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To: neverdem
There should be a universal recognition of the Second Amendment as the supreme law of the land.

So far, at least, the Second Amendment does not give you the right to carry anywhere outside your home.

The one gripe I have with Alito's majority writing is his specific citation that restricting carry from schools is acceptable. It opens up the potential for restrictions in all sorts of places, leaving your home as the only place you can exercise your Second Amendment rights.

5 posted on 08/10/2008 10:59:41 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (Too many conservatives urge retreat when the war of politics doesn't go their way.)
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To: neverdem

I would love to see this happen but I think the 12 without the CC’s would fight this tooth and nail. Perhaps the 38 could ban together as a start?


6 posted on 08/10/2008 11:07:02 AM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: Erik Latranyi
So far, at least, some political a$$wipes won't recognize that the Second Amendment does not give you voices your GOD given right to carry anywhere outside your home.


10 posted on 08/10/2008 11:17:40 AM PDT by xmission (Democrats have killed our Soldiers by rewarding the enemy for brutality)
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To: Erik Latranyi
The one gripe I have with Alito's majority writing is his specific citation that restricting carry from schools is acceptable.

Anthony Scalia wrote the majority decision.

It opens up the potential for restrictions in all sorts of places, leaving your home as the only place you can exercise your Second Amendment rights.

I don't read it that way. If the militia is everyone, then everyone should be armed at home. How does a militia perform its duty if they are confined to their homes? To bear arms means to carry. It's not restricted to open carry in the Second Amendment.

11 posted on 08/10/2008 11:21:39 AM PDT by neverdem (I'm praying for a Divine Intervention.)
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To: Erik Latranyi

And as long as I’m posting, let me point out that the Second Amendment does not give anyone any rights whatsoever. It affirms a right that the people already had before it was written.


27 posted on 08/10/2008 3:59:53 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin (buk...buk...buk...BARACK!)
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