[VRWCmember]

Just Wow! An incoherent and idiotic response to an incoherent and idiotic question.

[Wings-n-Wind]

“I’m not sure I actually have captured the entire question, but it does occur to me that one thing that I thought about from time to time is that maybe you have some kind of constitutional right to have a cell phone with a predialed 911 number at your bedside,
....and that might provide you with a little better protection than a gun, which you’re not used to using,” Stevens said.

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You have seconds to decide....

Seconds to act & protect your loved ones....
...Perhaps seconds to live...

And the 9-1-1 response is only minutes away...

Hizzoner needs a reality check...

[ari-freedom]

Duck and cover!

[Thommas]

..it does occur to me that one thing that I thought about from time to time is that maybe you have some kind of constitutional right to have a cell phone with a predialed 911 number at your bedside, and that might provide you with a little better protection than a gun, which you’re not used to using,” Stevens said.

This is the sort of constitutional genius that Justice Stevens utilized in his egregious tenure on the SCOTUS. According to this, and every other liberal mind on the Court, if one cannot justify a position with the Constitution, make something up by semantic misdirection.

Does Justice Stevens feel safer with his Secret Service detail armed with only cell phones? I'll bet those agents in the Secret Service use their cell phones and communication devices much more often than they use their guns. Does that give them a better Constitutional right to protection by cell phone than to bear arms?

[FrankR]

My guns never have a dead battery, a weak signal, and work a lot faster than 911

[thingumbob]

I guess his "briefs" were on too tight....maybe he should change to boxers?

Pun intended....hahahaha!

[SMARTY]

REALLY!!??

If I don’t want a cell phone, do I have a constiutional right to a conventional PHONE... like the one I have had all my life?

Will the government pick up the tab on that??

Because I would use IT, if I needed to make a 911 call!!??? Isn’t that the same thing?

[Texas Songwriter]

I don’t ever want to hear about the Harvard, Yale, Princeton Law graduates being elitist thinkers. This is just the kind of shit-for-brains thinking has given the United States so many insane interpretations of the Constitution.

[Freedom4US]

This is Satire guys...

[soupbone1]

The type of response you would expect from a man with government provided police protection.

[deweyfrank]

So, every time I hear a noise in the middle of the night I should dial 911? Every time the stinkin cat or dog knocks something over, and it makes a noise, we should dial 911?
What idiots!!

[C210N]

Stevens may be on to something here. Perhaps EVERY American *does* have a constitutional right to own a cell phone...

[Joe Brower]

Holy God. If anyone had any doubts previously about how these leftist SCOTUS 'justices' just make it up as they go, you can toss those doubts out the window now. Just like this asshat is doing with The Constitution that he supposedly swore and oath to affirm and uphold.

[desertfreedom765]

The Average response time to a 911 call is 23 minutes.

The Average response time of a .357 Magnum is 1400 feet per second...

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Though very poorly stated, an argument could be made that there might be a constitutional right to “governmental emergency notification”, that is, to the *ability* to notify the government, in a timely manner, that you need help, as a form of free speech.

“The right to petition government for redress of grievances is the right to make a complaint to, or seek the assistance of, one’s government, without fear of punishment or reprisals.”

And because government is, for most people, “far away”, and we now have an inexpensive and expeditious way of notifying government in emergencies, we have the “911” system, which many countries have adopted as a good idea.

So, what about a right to “emergency use only” cellphones for those who cannot afford their own telephone? (Right now, most commercial cell phones still retain a small reserve of battery power when they are depleted, which can only be used to call 911.)

While 911 operators *can* respond to ‘hang ups’, and other “no information” notifications, they much prefer, and can give a far better response, with voice information from callers. So just giving people an “emergency button” to push is far less practical than an emergency cell phone.

And those individuals who misuse the system can legitimately be denied its use as well.

Okay, a theory. Obviously one with some serious holes in it.

Importantly, this in *no* way diminishes the 2nd Amendment, and a cell phone is in no way an adequate substitute for defensive arms, for the simple reason that the *possibility* of government action, based on the right to petition the government, is not comparable to a citizens’ right to act themselves in a timely manner.

[Dr. Sivana]

“[ . . . ]maybe you have some kind of constitutional right to have a cell phone with a predialed 911 number at your bedside, and that might provide you with a little better protection than a gun, which you’re not used to using,” Stevens said.

The only people who are used to dialing 911 are poorly supervised juvenile delinquints and folks off their meds.

[CSM]

“a cell phone with a predialed 911 at your bedside might be better protection than a gun.”

Yep, the police are minutes away when seconds count! I suppose it is true that mastermind utopians are not required to actually consider the results of their plans!

[Georgia Girl 2]

This is what senile dementia looks like.

[Red in Blue PA]

Has he ever heard of SCOTUS Castle Rock v Gonzales which states citizens do not have a Constitutional right to police protection?

[Wurlitzer]

Well of course we have a RIGHT to purchase a cell phone as the Constitution does not forbid it but of course the real question is do we have the right to force others to buy it for us and the answer is NO! There should never be a debate about that question.

We have the right to own firearms but not the right to force others to buy them for us.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, speaking at an event hosted by the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence’s Legal Action Project, said Monday said that having “some kind of constitutional right to a cell phone with a predialed 911 at your bedside might be better protection than a gun.”