Dangerous Ruling [BARF ALERT]

Washington Post ^ | March 10, 2007 | Washington Post

[goldstategop]

The Washington Compost liberals believe the only people deserving of protection are liberals who can afford bodyguards and their adored felons. The peasants just can sit there and wait to be robbed, raped and murdered.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Loyal Buckeye]

According to its myth, only criminals have had guns in the city and now law-abiding citizens will be able to arm themselves for protection. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty (D) counters that argument with the sad record of what results from a proliferation of guns.

Funny stuff.

[Atlas Sneezed]

This is precious. The idiotorial says:

The Supreme Court, in its landmark 1939 decision United States v. Miller, stated that the Second Amendment was adopted "with obvious purpose" of protecting the ability of states to organize militias and "must be interpreted and applied with that end in view."

Yet they neglect the entire section of the ruling that explained that an individual right to keep and bear arms was essential for this purpose.

[goldstategop]

They don't get it at the Compost - Washington DC has the highest murder rate in the country. Neighboring Virginia with CCW has a markedly lower rate of violent crime. The fact is an armed society is a polite society.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Rakkasan1]

I fart in their general direction. DC control-freaks got the piledriver.

[Louis Foxwell]

for the WaPo to assert that the words "the People" in the Second Amendment actually means "the State."

Well put. You are absolutely correct. The very best example of this is Hillary's use of the words "government" and "society" interchangably. Inm her vocabulary they have the same meaning. All society is government in the eyes of Marxists everywhere.

This device is one more PC tool brilliantly crafted by Karl Marx to end all private activity.

According to the post and other fascist demogogues, "The authority of the vested class must not be abridged by the unwashed masses...."

[goldstategop]

Individual rights are dangerous to the Compost now? I don't think their editors would welcome a court ruling that allowed the government to ban the press in the name of public safety. So why the double standard when it comes to guns and the RKBA? The Second Amendment as Charlton Heston noted, is the key one that prevents all the rest from being turned into a dead letter by the government. One would think the Compost would understand why the Founders of our country wanted the people to remain armed.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[unixfox]

They just can't contain themselves that a D.C. court would actually stand for the CONSTITUTION.

God these people make me sick!

[goldstategop]

An unconstitutional law cannot be enforced in an American court. DC Democrat Thug Adrian Fenty is too stupid to understand that his law no longer exists; it has been wiped clean from the statute books.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[R. Scott]

Moreover, if the legal principles used in the decision are applied nationally, every gun control law on the books would be imperiled.

Hopefully.

[sergeantdave]

I just love it when the collectivists at Pravda on the Potomac get their Marxist wheels spinning. I bet they're throwing their purses all over the newsroom in frustration.

[Ken H]

On the other hand, 2nd Amendment advocates may not want the case to go to the SCOTUS either, because if the Supreme Court reverses the Circuit Court of Appeals on the merits, and rules in favor of a collective rights theory, then the gun grabbers could outlaw the private ownership of firearms.

Under current case law, gun grabbers can and do outlaw private ownership. A collective rights decision would not change any state law protecting the RKBA - it would simply maintain the status quo. OTOH, a favorable ruling would establish a line in the sand which the gun grabbers could not cross. Exactly where that line is drawn remains to be seen, but it would certainly enhance the RKBA.

[InABunkerUnderSF]

Yes!!!

US v. Miller is as big a mistake as Plessy Ferguson, Dred Scott and Roe Wade.

It's time for the constitution to mean what the constitution says.

[Thunder90]

That would happen because the justices on this appellate court said that the Second Amendment should be incorperated to the states through the 14th Amendment.

[NewJerseyJoe]

> I doubt that we'll be hearing much from Mr Rowan about this in the future,however.He died a few years back.

I dunno.... death doesn't stop liberals from voting and winning elections -- why should it stop them from writing editorials? <g>

[BartMan1]

From Wikipedia entry ( I didn't know all the sordid details-- really quite a story ):

Rowan gained public notoriety on June 14, 1988, when he shot a teenage tresspasser, Neil Smith, who was taking a dip in Rowan's swimming pool in Washington, D.C.. Rowan used an unregistered .22 LR pistol. Critics charged hypocrisy, since Rowan was a strict gun control advocate. In a 1981 column, he advocated " a law that says anyone found in possession of a handgun except a legitimate officer of the law goes to jail -- period." In 1985, he called for "A complete and universal federal ban on the sale, manufacture, importation and possession of handguns (except for authorized police and military personnel)."

Immediately after the shooting, Rowan offered several conflicting accounts about where he got the handgun. He first said that he had purchased the gun himself in response to threats on his life (which he later claimed had been made by the Ku Klux Klan). He also initially claimed that the gun had been properly registered. However, when District of Columbia police disclosed that the gun had not been registered, Rowan changed his story, claiming that the gun belonged to his son, who "was an FBI agent and did not have to register it [because it was] properly registered federally." Police officials pointed out that under D.C. law, all guns must be registered locally; failure to do so was punishable by up to a year in prison and a $1,000 fine.

Rowan was tried but the jury was deadlocked, the judge declared a mistrial and he was never retried. In his autobiography, Rowan said he still favors gun control, but admits being vulnerable to a charge of hypocrisy.

Rowan died in Washington, D.C. His alma mater Oberlin College holds his papers.

[ctdonath2]

Miller was not a mistake.
Miller was profoundly misinterpreted.

[6ppc]

IN OVERTURNING the District of Columbia's long-standing ban on handguns yesterday, a federal appeals court turned its back on nearly 70 years of Supreme Court precedent to give a new and dangerous return the original meaning to the Second Amendment. If allowed to stand, this radical sensible ruling will inevitably mean more people criminals killed and wounded as keeping guns out of the city becomes harder.

Truth in journalism should be the law!

[techcor]

nearly 70 years of Supreme Court precedent to give a new and dangerous meaning to the Second Amendment.

Liberals are just amazingly stupid. The constitution has been around much longer than 70 years. This ruling only puts the meaning of the Second Amendment back to what it was before the ruling was 70 years ago. They think that the ruling 70 years ago somehow was what the Second Amendment was suppose to be even though we had lived with it as an individual right for many more years than that.