[robertpaulsen]

"trying to get a resolution passed that would promise the 2nd amendment would be protected."

Why? The second amendment has nothing whatsoever to do with state laws.

"That's because Cook County put a gun ban into effect this past February on long guns, like rifles and shotguns."

To clarify, it's an AWB. It was constitutional when done by Congress under the second amendment. Under the Illinois constitution it's a no-brainer.

[neverdem]

Why? The second amendment has nothing whatsoever to do with state laws.

When I read that legal nonsense, I knew it was you before I read your name. Adios

[dsc]

“It was constitutional when done by Congress under the second amendment”

No, it wasn’t.

[Lazamataz]

Why? The second amendment has nothing whatsoever to do with state laws.

COOL! That means that, since state laws trump the Bill of Rights, states can write a law that does away with the First Amendment!

So STFU.

[jcparks]

I have watched your controversial postings relating to the Second Amendment of the United States, and I do not agree with you. I DO understand the logic you are attempting to convey, just as I DO understand the logic of the minority population of "gun-grabbers" of which I believe you are on their side. I looked up the Illinois Consitution and found this:
Sec. 22. Subject only to the police power, the right of the individual citizen to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
This tells me that the Government of the State of Illinois granted themselves the power to be a "police state" and deny the population their inalienable rights.

How do you read it?
Please note the tag line of a Patriot

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Why? The second amendment has nothing whatsoever to do with state laws.

LOL. I know you're incoherent on the drug war threads, but on the gun threads too?

[EEDUDE]

“The second amendment has nothing whatsoever to do with state laws.”

I assume then that you would have no problem with a state, say California, deciding that medicinal marijuana is legal and the Feds should have nothing to say about it.

Or does this only work for issues you are in favor of?

[El Gato]

It was constitutional when done by Congress under the second amendment

And when did the Supreme Court rule that the federal AWB on militia style weapons was constitutional?

[2A_Martian]

“The second amendment has nothing whatsoever to do with state laws.”

I agree with the following:

“A legislative act contrary to the Constitution is not law.”
— Justice John Marshall

[therut]

Not a true statement. The USSC has never ruled whether it is or not.