American Citizen's Right to keep and bear arms is Guaranteed by Second Amendment _ Emerson Case.

Second Amendment Foundation ^ | 10.16.2001 | Dave LaCourse

[CHICAGOFARMER]

This destroys the Brady Foundation, the Clinton era attorney's arguments, the Million Misguided Mommies Marcher arguement that Gun (firearms) should be taken away from American Citizens.

[Illbay]

How the h*ll did that happen after eight years of Clinton packing the courts?

[NovemberCharlie]

Only one judge was a Clinton appointee. The other two were put there by Reagan and Bush (I).

[nralife]

My take on this is that now the ball is in Emerson's court, which is a good thing! Now that we have a 2nd Amendment friendly AG in office, who would not have be inclined to appeal a loss on 2nd Amendment grounds to the Supreme Court, all we have to do now is to take the initiative to appeal to the Supreme Court ourselves... and if I'm not mistaken, that is just what the Second Amendment Foundation is planning!

Now if Al Gore would have won the election, we all know he would have had an anti-gun AG... Under that scenario, I believe that the 5th Circuit would have swung the other way in not only upholding the individual rights interpretation of the RKBA, but it would have upheld Emerson's district court win as well, because in that case the AG would have appealed to the Supreme Court.

Don't you see that now we have the perfect opportunity to make lemonade out of the lemons we have been handed???

What do you think?

nralife

http://second-amendment-homepage.com

[BenR2]

Mr. Illbay, with all due respect, I do believe I wholeheartedly agree with one of your posts (for a change)!

And I couldn't have put it better myself.

[concerned about politics]

AMEN, AMEN.
So let it be written, so let it be done!!!!!

[BOBWADE]

WHOOOHOOO BUMP!

[freedomnews]

bump for FREEDOM

[SirAllen]

They can read! They can read! By God, they can actually read! (well, the liberal is still illiterate of course)

[Skibane]

The gist of this story has already been previously posted on FR, but nonetheless is important to warrant yet another big ol' posting to the bang_list!.

(Click HERE to show most gun-related articles recently posted on FreeRepublic.com.)

[concerned about politics]

Good idea. I forgot to BUMP .

[Dan from Michigan]

Kudos to SAF for taking the lead on this. It isn;t the perfect decision, but we gained much more than we lost.

[Skibane]

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[Lester Moore]

One has to wonder how it is that they could argue with a straight face that the phrase, "the people" means different people from amendment to amendment throughtout the Bill of Rights (which was adopted all together as a block of 10).

[concerned about politics]

This destroys the Brady Foundation, the Clinton era attorney's arguments, the Million Misguided Mommies Marcher arguement that Gun (firearms) should be taken away from American Citizens.

HOooooorrraayyyyy. This is such good news.
I can see them changing their pants already!!!!

[ppaul]

This is an awesome ruling. However, it only affects 5th Circuit states. The gun-grabbers will still be enforcing the federal law against men who keep guns (all woman needs to do is allege domestic violence and obtain an "ex parte" order for protection which the courts hand out like candy), without any conviction - based upon an angry wife or girlfriend's say so. Hopefully a similar ruling will come down from the US Supreme Court one of these days.

[BOBWADE]

I totaly agree. Ashcroft can instruct his lawyers to appeal it to SCOTUS but they won't rigorously offer an argument against the case. It would be good to get this affirmed by the scotus. I think I will drink a cold one right now to celebrate!

[concerned about politics]

One has to wonder how it is that they could argue with a straight face that the phrase, "the people" means different people from amendment to amendment throughtout the Bill of Rights

The same way they twisted "the right to life" to mean abortion.

[CHICAGOFARMER]

Texas has real men!

[BOBWADE]

quite bumpable!
Thank god for W!