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Government files amicus -- on DC's side of Gun Control Law

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Posted by Anonymoose 2008-01-12 09:44|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 District of Communists.

Every citizen has THE RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS. Period, CASE CLOSED. The weasel words of litigation and splitting hairs on the part of the gun control panzies makes me want to puke. Repeal the DC gun ban now. Then, immediately enact the gun laws that Vermont has and watch the violent crime rate drop at least 10% in DC.

Posted by Broadhead6 2008-01-12 11:43|| 2008-01-12 11:43|| Front Page Top

#2 I suspect the government is in the predicament of the prospect of the SCOTUS creating a legal gap, in which lots of old laws can be repealed. For example, limits on machine guns, including medium and heavy guns, and even artillery and explosives.

The trouble is that those restrictions were made on the basis of limiting the 2nd Amendment, instead of on other grounds, as they should have been.

In other words, there is an absence of good law that makes reasonable restrictions on "arms", if not guns. Even the constitution says "arms", which makes it worse.

SCOTUS may choose to interpret "arms" in the 2nd Amendment to *solely* mean guns, but even this can create problems, with dual purpose "arms" that are not guns.

No matter what happens, there is the potential here for a lot a bad side effects.

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-01-12 12:17|| 2008-01-12 12:17|| Front Page Top

#3 I don't know, I think I'd like a nice towed model 155MM to park in the driveway. It would definitely reduce the number of crazies I have coming to try to sell me "magazines", candy, and other stuff I don't want or need.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2008-01-12 19:51|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2008-01-12 19:51|| Front Page Top

#4 You'd be besieged with parade organizers wanting you to come to "Their" event.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2008-01-12 20:27|| 2008-01-12 20:27|| Front Page Top

#5 'moose, of course sense the supremos have a problem applying the "reasonable man" theory. Again, they're enough laws on the books for charging people who criminally use guns vice those that use them in self-def. Whether it be a .380 backup piece or a .50 cal sasser. The supremos other problem is that they're divided along political lines - the U.S. Const be damned. Any 8th Grader could read the 2d Amd and tell you what it means - as the founding fathers intended.

Posted by Broadhead6 2008-01-12 20:39|| 2008-01-12 20:39|| Front Page Top

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