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The Right of the People to Keep and Bear Arms...
... shall not be infringed!
Well, maybe.
The Supreme Court has struck down as unconstitutional the D.C. law banning handguns. "The District's ban on handgun possession in the home violates the Second Amendment, as does its prohibition against rendering any lawful firearm in the home operable for the purpose of immediate self-defense." Scalia's majority opinion in the 5-4 decision divorces the right to bear arms from the militia portion of the 2nd Amendment, thereby tying an "individual right to possess and carry weapons" to an inherent right of self-defense. This profound interpretation provides the Court's first unequivocal decree on the 2nd Amendment.
However, the court cautions several limitations. First, just as it does not read the 1st Amendment "to protect the right of citizens to speak for any purpose" (i.e., yelling fire in a theater), it likewise does not read the 2nd Amendment "to protect the right of citizens to carry arms for any sort of confrontation." Restrictions will still be permitted with regard to felons, the mentally ill, school zones, etc.
Far more importantly, however, is the recognition that D.C. is a federal entity - not a state. And the Court seems to imply that the 2nd Amendment has not hereby been incorporated such that it applies to the states. Hence, the case may not provide binding precedent nearly anywhere else in the nation. We will have the right under the 2nd Amendment, but the Court may not enforce the amendment beyond the federal government. (This seeming injustice is actually constitutionally correct, as the Bill of Rights did not originally apply to the states, but only to the federal government. However, as the Supreme Court has enforced other provisions of the bill of Rights on the states, it would seem arbitrary and unjust to deny this right - unless all other rights were similarly rescinded ... an unlikely event.)
Expect an explosion of litigation on this issue in the near future - and watch to see if the Court is eager to take up those cases and expound upon today's ruling.
Recent Comments
(Page 1 of 1)Crystal1:42PMJun 26th 2008
bonbon1:15PMJun 26th 2008
boy this ruling must have pissed Obama off, as he wants to ban handguns in every single state.
he may now deny this, but he did try to get a ban started, but had to give it up. of course he nows denies he ever did, but there is written proof. but then he flips flops so much who knows what the hell he is talking about at any given time.
oh well tough for him.
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Typical Obama flip flopping! I wonder why I'm not surprised.
Katherine1:53PMJun 26th 2008
Yes, I am relieved to learn of the supreme court's decision.
bonbon: ya! I thought of Obama as well. He and Phleger, et al must have been furious. Bwwahahahhh
Katherine1:56PMJun 26th 2008
Here is Obama's anti-gun record according to RNC website: http://www.gop.com/news/NewsRead.aspx?Guid=2c548675-03cc-45a0-a72f-be875b1cd0f0
Voice of Reasons2:04PMJun 26th 2008
Our second amendment right was written into the constitution so we can protect ourselves against the tyranny of our own gov. Of course the gov. does not wish for us to even know this much less speak about it openly. We have the exact opposite of what the constitution says. We now have a Federal Gov. that is so large, that states arights are almost non-existant. Our founders meant for us to have a very limited Fed. Gov. Now Fed. laws trump any states laws. The worse part of it is....this is what people seem to want. It will be too late to recognize the mistake of this when the Feds have their foot on our necks. Nothing but the blood of patriots will be able to fix the problem then.
iynaroc022:36PMJun 26th 2008
HONESTY ISSUE:
Will the real John McCain please stand up. For people that want to meet the real john McCain, please read these two articles: Corruption, Flip-Flop and Lies
http://www.realchange.org/mccain.htm
http://www.nationalreview.com/contributors/levin040501.shtml
Now that's the McCain, the reformer we know.
AGE ISSUE:
Data just released show America is behind most industrialized nations when it comes to life expectancy. That is why we need universal healthcare like Obama is advocating. Just food for thought:
- For average white American male, life expectancy is 72 years and John McCain is already 72 years old, so he might kick the bucket any time now
- For average black American male, the life expectancy is 70 years and Barack Obama is only 46 years old.
Katherine2:37PMJun 26th 2008
SCOTUS Ruling on Gun Rights Highlights Obama Electability Issues
http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/06/26/scotus-ruling-on-gun-rights-highlights-obama-electability-issues/
Crystal3:28PMJun 26th 2008
Katherine1:56PMJun 26th 2008
Here is Obama's anti-gun record according to RNC website: http://www.gop.com/news/NewsRead.aspx?Guid=2c548675-03cc-45a0-a72f-be875b1cd0f0
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Kat, thanks for this link. I'm not much of a web surfer so I appreciate all the links you send.
bonbon4:29PMJun 26th 2008
Katherine I also would like to say thank you for the great links, you provide to these posts.
as always bonbon
Jim5:45PMJun 26th 2008
WHAT OBAMA DOESN'T WANT VOTERS TO KNOW ABOUT HIS UNCLE
WRIGHT..
http://infidelsarecool.com/2008/03/20/rev-wright-got-his-masters-degree-in-islam-in-west-africa/
Wrights Own Words..
Most of our members do not know that my Master’s Degree from the University of Chicago’s Divinity School was in the area of Islam in West Africa during the 19th Century — when the trans-Atlantic Slav
Trade was at its zenith. Islam has as many manifestations as Christianity and Judaism.
Rev Wright teacher of Islam was a DR Fazlur Rahman..
Once the election was underway, Barack Hussein Obama was very careful to promote himself as a Christian and the keystone of his Christian identity was Trinity Church, a Church shaped around a former Musli
whose Divinity School Masters Degree was on Islam and who used the Church to preach hatred for America and support for terrorism. That man of course is Jeremiah Wright.
With the revelations that Jeremiah Wright is a former Muslim and received his Masters degree from the University of Chicago’s Divinity School on Islam in Africa– Obama’s affiliation with Wright’s Trinity Church takes on a whole new meaning.
When Obama attended Wright’s Trinity Church, was he really attending a Church or a Mosque that Wright had built with a Christian facade over it.
Wright has admitted to incorporating ideas from Black Muslims into Trinity. He himself is a former Muslim who promotes an Islam centered view of America and Israel as demon states. There are Synagogues that are actually Churches dedicated to targeting Jews. Muslims have been covertly imitating some of this. There is a Jews for Allah and Muslims have been trained to lead religious discussions with Christians by equating Christianity with Islam , proclaiming that they too believe in Jesus. If there are Messianic Christian synagogues, why not a Prophetic Christian mosque?
Either way, conspiracy theories aside, the Church that Obama was attending had more in common with a Mosque than with a conventional Church. It was led by a former Muslim whose specialty was and is Islam. A former Muslim who hates America and Israel and who preaches ideas that are basically Black Muslim ideas. So Obama’s claim that Trinity Church normalizes him as a Christian goes out the window, because Trinity Church is no mainstream Christian Church. It’s as close as anyone can come to attending a Mosque without actually attending a Mosque.
Consider Obama’s “I’m not a Muslim” defense reverted back to square one. Or is that Mosque one.
Also Obama’s Chicago church reprinted a manifesto by Hamas that defended terrorism as legitimate resistance, refused to recognize the right of Israel to exist and compared the terror group’s official charter – which calls for the murder of Jews – to America’s Declaration of Independence.
copy of manifesto.... Guess Obama didn't see this one either...
...http://www.bizzyblog.com/wp-images/TUCChamasColumn072207.jpg
This is how Obama learned to lie so well..
http://www.islam-watch.org/Warner/Taqiyya-Islamic-Principle-Lying-for-Allah.htm
here is how taqiyya is used in america..
http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-9730604_ITM
According to Christian ethics lying is a sin; In Islamic jurisprudence and theology, the use of taqiyya against the unbelievers is regarded as a virtue and a religious duty
Taqiyya has been used by Muslims since the 7th century to confuse and split 'the enemy'. A favored tactic was ‘deceptive triangulation'; to persuade the enemy that jihad was not aimed at them but at another enemy.
Just two of the roles that a taqiyya uses.
Outwitting:
The skilled taqiyya-tactician doesn’t want the matter at hand to be debated or discussed; so his opponent must be outwitted or preemptively outflanked by the use of taqiyya. The objective is to divert attention away from the subject through duplicity and obfuscation
Role playing as the victim:
When placed under scrutiny or criminal investigation, (even when there is overwhelming, irrefutable evidence of guilt or complicity), the taqiyya-tactician will quickly attempt to counter the allegation by resorting to the claim that it is, in fact, the accused who are the 'the victims'. Victims of Islamophobia, racism, religious discrimination and intolerance. Currently, this is the most commonly encountered form of distraction and 'outwitting'….. Defence by offence.
Go back and review all of Obamas speeches, rallies and debates..You'll see a clear message.. Obama is a taqiyya tactican...simple as that..
Jim2u5:50PMJun 26th 2008
Obama Campaign Linked To Chechen Terrorism
http://www.rense.com/general80/obb.htm
See what the Russians have to say about Obama..
Jim5:58PMJun 26th 2008
Seems Obama hasn't studied history that much. It was the battles of Lexingston and Bunkerhill and the invent of a General Thomas Gage to have the citiizens of Boston surrender their weapons right before the British invaded.. That invent caused the second amendent to be written into the Constitution in the first place..
Georgette8:31PMJun 26th 2008
The ruling is in line with what our four fathers intended. Perhaps, they were wise enough to see that someday the Government would be so out of control that Americans would have to defend themselves.
If the state of our economy dosen't turn around, and Government doesen't star making some hard decisions soon, there will be thousands of people who will stop at nothing for just the everyday necessities to surive.
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bonbon1:15PMJun 26th 2008
boy this ruling must have pissed Obama off, as he wants to ban handguns in every single state.
he may now deny this, but he did try to get a ban started, but had to give it up. of course he nows denies he ever did, but there is written proof. but then he flips flops so much who knows what the hell he is talking about at any given time.
oh well tough for him.