Comments on: Supreme Court To Rule On DC Gun Ban

By: Quilly Mammoth

Quilly Mammoth — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 12:02:58 +0000

Jefferson was wrong by almost two hundred years. He thought we’d need periodic revolutions to keep our liberties. Going this long without having to hit the reset button is pretty good.

By: halfacarafe

halfacarafe — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 02:37:31 +0000

What an excellent time for this case to be chosen by the Supreme Court. It gives every reporter an opportunity to ask all the presidential candidates their opinion of this case. It should help the “undecided” be able to make a choice. It lets us know where the candidates stand on their interpretation of the second amendment.

Expect the MSM to fail. Maybe they can ask about pearls, or diamonds, or Paris Hilton.

By: Right Voices » Blog Archive » SCOTUS To Decide On What “well regulated militia” Means

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 00:33:26 +0000

[...] Blue Crab Boulevard : Even a profoundly anti-gun constitutional scholar, Jonathan Turley, has recognized that the Second Amendment is meant to be an individual right. But you can expect the anti-gun zealots to pull out all the stops on this one. A ruling that favors the right of the individual will be a major setback for them and will put many of the more extreme gun control laws in jeopardy. Keep in mind that a ruling the other way would be a disaster for gun owners. [...]

By: bill-tb

bill-tb — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 21:51:11 +0000

How can you tell a right spelled out in the Bill of Rights is meant to be an individual right? I always assumed the Bill of Rights was just a catchy name for the first ten amendments and their meaning would be figured out later. No, you think I might have it wrong?

When A guy can get a Nobel Peace Prize for a phony movie full of lies and distortions of truth, just think of the possibilities.

By: martian

martian — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 20:13:12 +0000

(Sorry, hit the wrong keyboard key. To continue…) has not only the right but the obligation to own a weapon (gun). Since the same rights that were extended to every able bodied adult male are now extended, by law, to adult females as well that means that women also have the right and the duty to own a weapon. So much for gun control. By their own reasoning EVERY ADULT should own a gun!

By: martian

martian — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 20:08:33 +0000

I always have to laugh whenever the gun control advocates trot out that old conundrum that the Second Amendment merely sets forth the collective right of states to maintain militias. The reason that I laugh is that the gun control advocates either don’t know their history or have chosen to ignore historical facts. The simple fact is that, in that day and age, a “well regulated militia” consisted of EVERY ABLE BODIED ADULT MALE. Thus, even by their reasoning that it merely authorizes states to maintain a militia, by the historical definition of militia means that EVERY ABLE BODIED ADULT MALE

By: Neo

Neo — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 19:39:15 +0000

Meanwhile Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell sat before the State House Judiciary Committee today in support of three gun control bills.