Posted on 06/12/2006 6:27:55 PM PDT by CAWats
No problem.
No problem.
I do not approve of queers adopting, either -- but the effect is the same. Adoption produces no net population growth; the chart still heads downward...
Good news!
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IIRC, the Ninth Circuit has ALREADY ruled that there IS no individual RKBA, while (I think) the Sixth Circuit has ruled that there IS such a right. Both (different) judgements apply in the areas of jurisdiction of the two Circuits.
Eventually, the Supremes are going to HAVE to rule on this issue, which is why getting more conservative, strict-constructive Justices on the Supreme Court is essential. We could use at least two more Scalias.
Man, you oughta compare a red-state city with the blue state city, and not two blue-state ones. Say compare San Francisco to DFW or Houston.
The 9th and 5th are currently in contention on the 2A. The 9th holding a "collective"/socialist view and the 5th getting it mostly right by stating it is an Individual Right. As it should be.
Thanks. I knew it was either the Fifth or Sixth Circuit, but couldn't remember exactly which.
What's the latest on the effort to split the Ninth Circuit and create a new circuit "out west"???
That, I don't know. Not sure it would really make all that much difference. What needs to happen is for these judicial legislators to be impeached. Failing that, tarred and feathered followed up with being run out of town.
Correct. It may be awhile, though, SCOTUS has dodged this since the thirties. Thomas, Roberts, and Alito I believe are excellent appointments and on the side of 2A, as well as Scalia. Two more would be a steamroller, but none would make things shaky, so that is why I think everybody wants to keep 2A out of Federal court just now. A SCOTUS decision upholding an absolute individual right would invalidate a huge amount of gun control legislation in all 50 states.
I was willing to replace Ruth "Buzzi" Ginsberg with Ann Coulter so the opinions are fun to read, but W wouldn't ask her to resign for me.
Not to mention the fact that Coulter is a LOT easier on the eyes than Ginsberg.
Don't be too sure. Remember that it was Thomas who held that a conviction of a U.S. citizen in a foreign court was suitable grounds for lifetime denial of an American's second amendment rights.
Thankfully, his was a minority view on that one. But he deserves watching for such future rulings.
"This court has not had recent occasion to consider the nature of the substantive right safeguarded by the Second Amendment. If, however, the Second Amendment is read to confer a personal right to "keep and bear arms", a colorable argument exists that the Federal government's regulatory scheme, at least as it pertains to the purely intrastate sale or possession of firearms, runs afoul of that Amendment's protections....Perhaps at some future date this court will have the opportunity to determine whether Justice Story was correct when he wrote that the RKBA "has justly been considered as the palladium of the liberties of a republic..."
IIRC, the county sheriffs in CA issue the right to carry concealed permits, and those peckerwoods, especially all the bay area sherriffs, rarely issue permits, unless you are Sean Penn.
FYI--That particular "quote" from Hitler has been debunked.
http://www.guncite.com/gun_control_gcbogus.html
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