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2010-06-28 Home Front: Politix

Supreme Court's Big Ruling For Gun Rights

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Posted by Sherry 2010-06-28 10:29|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Wha...? The Constitution and the Bill of Rights are supposed to apply to the entire country? Inconceivable!

Posted by Dar 2010-06-28 10:35|| 2010-06-28 10:35|| Front Page Top

#2 Chief Justice Roberts: "I don't see how you can read Heller and not take away from it the notion that the Second Amendment...was extremely important to the framers in their view of what liberty meant."

Posted by Dar 2010-06-28 10:37|| 2010-06-28 10:37|| Front Page Top

#3 If the 14th Amendment incorporates the rest of the Bill of Rights at the state and local level, it surely does the same for the 2nd.

Posted by Steve White 2010-06-28 10:49|| 2010-06-28 10:49|| Front Page Top

#4 Now if they would just enforce the 1965 Civil Rights act.

Posted by gromky 2010-06-28 11:14|| 2010-06-28 11:14|| Front Page Top

#5 Tragedy that the vote was so close. Should have been 9-0.

Posted by Iblis 2010-06-28 12:38|| 2010-06-28 12:38|| Front Page Top

#6 I hope you're not serious gromky!

Posted by chris 2010-06-28 12:56|| 2010-06-28 12:56|| Front Page Top

#7 I don't know why this isn't bigger news.

Now I'd like to get a handgun permit recognized as an infringement.

Posted by flash91 2010-06-28 12:56|| 2010-06-28 12:56|| Front Page Top

#8 If you get a chance, check out Justice Thomas's concurring opinion. Legally, it is a humdinger, and clear that Thomas equates gun control with slavery, and rather passionately. He also takes issue with the Supreme Court waffling on the issue of civil rights being universal in the past.

However, keep in mind that this is a "single heartbeat" decision, and the moment the court turns liberal, it could, and likely will all be overturned.

This is a major problem right now, and yet another reason to hold a constitutional convention. Civil rights should not rest on 5-4 decisions, and periodically need to be reinforced at the root level, to get rid of countless years of efforts to undermine and neutralize them.

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-06-28 14:17|| 2010-06-28 14:17|| Front Page Top

#9 It really shouldn't have been that close of a vote.
There are 4 people on the highest court that read the bill of rights and somehow interpret that very simple statement WRONG. Sorry, there just isn't that much wiggle room in the 2nd Amendment.

Posted by bigjim-CA 2010-06-28 14:17|| 2010-06-28 14:17|| Front Page Top

#10 "There are 4 people on the highest court that read the bill of rights and somehow interpret that very simple statement WRONG."

More importantly, bigjim, there are 4 people on the Supreme Court who just said that they're fine with anti-gun laws, KNOWING that the laws are racist in origin and were specifically put in place to deprive our black citizens of the ability to defend themselves.

Makes ya' feel all warm and cozy, don't it? >:-(

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2010-06-28 15:11|| 2010-06-28 15:11|| Front Page Top

#11 Gura and National Rifle Association lawyer Paul Clement argued that the rights articulated in the Second Amendment are fundamental freedoms and would exist to all Americans even if there was no law specifically saying so.

Yup! Will San Francisco, New York, and all those other places please comply with the 2nd Amendment and quit interpreting the Constitution according to your own agenda.

Posted by JohnQC 2010-06-28 16:31|| 2010-06-28 16:31|| Front Page Top

#12 If we do have a next administration, this is the opening to keelhaul all those big politicos operating machines in the big cities by pressing civil rights violations of their citizens through their obstructions of this 'right'.

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-06-28 18:57|| 2010-06-28 18:57|| Front Page Top

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