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Amazing four voted in dissent
Posted By: Carl, Horizon Cat/Picnic Cat, Central Texas Report: outside forum guidelines In Response To: DC residents' handgun ban declared unconstitutional... (observer)
Date: 6/26/08 9:47a.m.
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It doesn't matter whether you like it or not, the Second Amendment says what it says, and it says we have a relatively unfettered individual right to bear arms. I thought justice was supposed to be blind, not taking peeks to promote social reform. I liked the part on page nine or ten of the opinion, where Scalia states in a footnote that Justice Stevens was 'dead wrong' in arguing the First Amendment right to petition the government is 'primarily collective in nature.' We are close to lost if there are four justices who seek to apply rights collectively. 'Let's see, in your demographic group the court's actuarial tables call for a guilty verdict....' Ewwww. What I truly regret, though, is that everyone seems to think the debate was over an American right. It wasn't, really. There are no American rights in the Bill of Rights. There are American guarantees of rights. Deciding whether an individual has the right to keep and bear arms or to express an opinion is outside of the government's jurisdiction. The best they can do is decide whether or not the government will stand in guarantee. In advance of the obvious, rights are not without limits. You do not have an unlimited right to live out your natural life, say whatever you want, or carry a gun. Just as we should be careful in deciding when you justifiably lose your right to a natural lifespan, we just need to be careful in deciding where other rights stop, as well. Piece to all. Dadgummit, wish my backspace key worked. Of course, in the spirit of the day everyone should have a piece, but I was trying to say 'Peace to all.'
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DC residents' handgun ban declared unconstitutional... -- observer -- 6/26/08 8:38a.m.
Next up: Chicago 
-- Tom Ray -- 6/26/08 9:03a.m.
-- Francois -- 6/26/08 9:23a.m.
