[FSPress]

Reasonable restriction on the 2nd ??? Thanks Ashcroft

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

In Emerson's case and a similar one the Supreme Court also rejected, the Bush administration told the Supreme Court that the Second Amendment protects an individual as well as the collective right to gun ownership. That position reversed decades-old policy on the Second Amendment.

Are there enough conservatives left in the field of law to fill our circuit courts?

[umgud]

There is another bigger problem here. While I don't know specifically whether Emerson was violent and abusive, I do know that too often divorce lawyers automatically demand restraining orders. This is often done without regard to the restrainee's actions or lack thereof and create untold thousands of criminals who own guns and get divorces. This is BS.

[thinktwice]

the Bush administration told the Supreme Court that the Second Amendment protects an individual as well as the collective right to gun ownership

Can ANYONE tell me what "collective right" means?

The concept of having political rights is restricted -- solely -- to individual human beings.

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

...saying the Second Amendment right was still subject to reasonable restrictions...

Treason!

[LibKill]

Another reason to stay single. Restraining orders are part of the divorce package now, justified or not.

[Travis McGee]

Bang!

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

The damned amendment does NOT say, The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall be subject to reasonable restrictions, determined by an out of control government.

Bush and his administration are done. No better than the Klintons.

[DugwayDuke]

Yes, there are "reasonable" restriction on RKBA. Just as there are "reasonable" restrictions on "free speech" or any other right.

Just a few:
No, you cannot possess a firearm while in prison.
No, you cannot be mentally impaired and possess a firearm.
No, you cannot routinely violate the law and posses a firearm. (BTW, that includes drug use.)
No, you cannot threaten someone with a firearm.
No, you cannot operate a high-powered rifle range in your suburban backyard.

There is a "balancing test" with RKBA, just like all other rights. To say otherwise damages RKBA.

[freepatriot32]

i wonder if ashhole would consider this a reasonable restriction California 'Literacy Tests' for Gun Buyers an Assault on Civil liberty

[philetus]

They will keep pecking away to see just how much they can get away with.

[Teacher317]

How can you stop owning your possessions without selling them?

How can a protective order mandate that a person sell his provately-owned property against his will?

How can one fail to see that this can be easily expanded in some really vicious ways?

[Alpha One]

So now all it takes to lose an unalienable right is a vindictive wife or girlfriend. In fact, in relation to this case, the restraining order is pretty much automatic in a divorce. So let me rephrase that.

The simple act of going through a divorce forces one to surrender their God given unalienable rights. Great.