[Draakan]

GREAT! ALLOW THE LAW ABIDING CITIZENS AND PILOTS TO CARRY! You can thank us later! Check out what that idiot Michael D. Barnes said, "This action is proof positive that the worst fears about Attorney General Ashcroft have come true – his extreme ideology on guns has now become government policy!"

[oldvike]

Ahhh, finally some good news from Bush. Please....oh please.....don't back down on this one Mr. President.

[boris]

"Here is the text of the Second Amendment: "'A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.'"

No. The Second Amendment has only a single comma.

--Boris

[anniegetyourgun]

This is the second posting of the Newsxmax account. However, you might be more interested in the even earlier NYT account.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Ah, another thread the B____ & Moan wing of the party will choose to ignore.

[Standing Wolf]

Shall issue needs to be
the law of the land!

[FormerLurker]

While I applaud the Administration for its correct reading of the 2nd Amendment as to it pertaining to an individual right versus a collective right, I see a problem where it is stated that Congress can in any way infringe on that right. As various gun control laws prohibit "high capacity" magazines and "assault weapons" which are in fact items which would reasonably be kept by a "well regulated militia", those laws DO infringe on the the right to keep and bear arms.

[bybybill]

Its a trick--got to listen to Rush tomorrow to find out what it is--GWB doesn`t do ANYTHING right..this really smells

[muawiyah]

Sometimes the government cannot or it fails to protect the people. A good example was the World Trade Center. The management up there needed SAMs or their equivalent so they could protect themselves from all comers.

New York City's antigun legislation contributed to the deaths of the WTC workers.

[Reagan Man]

Reversing the four-decade-long federal interpretation of the Second Amendment, the Bush administration has told the Supreme Court that it believes the Constitution protects an individual's right to bear arms.

Another positive decision. Thank you Mister President.

That's two good decisions in recent days.

From the Washingotn Times: The Bush administration yesterday pulled out of the U.N.-backed effort to create a permanent international court on war crimes, saying it recognized "no legal obligations" to the court.

U.S. withdraws from treaty on International Criminal Court

[El Gato]

That right, however, is "subject to reasonable restrictions designed to prevent possession by unfit persons or to restrict the possession of types of firearms that are particularly suited to criminal misuse."

Who decideds who is "unfit"? If it's judge and jury on a case by case basis, that's fine, if it's some non elected bureaurat at BATF, that's not. If it's by the stroke of pen, or by Congressional vote applying to everyone, that's not fine either. The second part, restricting possession of firearms "particularly suited to criminal misuse" is unconstitutional, IMHO, if for no other reason than it represents a prior restraint on an individual Constitutional right.

[Texas Mom]

Prove it. Allow the pilots to carry and defend their cockpits.. Until that bill is signed, it's all lip service to me.