[Orangedog]

I don't like it any more than you do. But when a 2nd Amendment case on whether or not individuals have a right to own guns goes to the Nine, it has to be the right case and go in front of the right justices. O'Connor is the swing vote and if you think she's pro gun, you need a strong pot of coffee.

You need to pick your fights carefully. Otherwise we end up with another civil war a half a million dead people.

[Dead Corpse]

I'd rather BE one of those half million dead in a civil war than wait around until they start raiding gun owners homes and packing the survivors off to the camps.

[tpaine]

Orangedog wrote: I don't like it any more than you do. But ---

--- You need to pick your fights carefully. Otherwise we end up with another civil war a half a million dead people.

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-- the vast numbers of right wing conservatives who believe that we can wait for the perfect court & the perfect congress to do the 'right thing', are truely among liberties biggest enemies.

A civil war will not be averted by allowing infringements on civil liberties.
I see it as exactly opposite. Civil disobedience to the '34NFA, '68 GCA, or the AWB would have given notice to the gun control freaks. -- Appeasment won, and here we stand, losing bit by bit.