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To: neverdem

What really frightens me is the thought that our Second Amendment rights ride on the continued good health of five men on the SCOTUS. If any one of them is replaced by Obama the Second Amendment is as good as repealed.


3 posted on 05/05/2009 10:38:50 PM PDT by Jeff Gordon (I don't trust Obama with my country. Do you?)
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To: Jeff Gordon

That is when the Kozinsky rule kicks in!


5 posted on 05/05/2009 10:46:54 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (THE SECOND AMENDMENT, A MATTER OF FACT, NOT A MATTER OF OPINION)
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To: Jeff Gordon
Jeff Gordon said: "If any one of them is replaced by Obama the Second Amendment is as good as repealed."

It would be bad, but I don't think it would be that bad.

It has taken over seventy years to address the nonsensical readings of US vs. Miller. The Miller decision unreasonably limited the right to weapons USEFUL TO A MILITIA. Anti-gunners since then have purposely mis-read it to limit the right to MEMBER OF AN ORGANIZED MILITIA.

The Heller decision clarifies that individuals are protected and broadens the purposes to include self-defense.

Even the Supreme Court knows that the 1994 election handed Congress to the Republicans because of gun control. A Supreme Court decision REVERSING Heller could very well start a civil war. And for what? So politicians can claim that they are doing something about crime?

An Obama Court will probably content itself to letting bad decisions stand and attempting to reverse good decisions so that they go no farther than Heller dictated.

9 posted on 05/06/2009 12:02:08 AM PDT by William Tell
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