Posted on 07/15/2009 4:39:53 PM PDT by Pyro7480
...On Wednesday, legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin implied that the Supreme Court’s 2008 decision to uphold the Second Amendment was revolutionary: “When I was in law school...the idea that you had a Second Amendment right to a gun was considered preposterous....But the Supreme Court [in Heller]...said that...individuals have a personal right to bear arms.”
...Anchor Wolf Blitzer raised the Second Amendment issue with Toobin, a graduate of Harvard Law School, and the others on their panel analyzing the hearings.... [and] asked...what were the nominee’s “positions, specifically on the federal obligation to support the Second Amendment, as opposed to local communities..?”
The CNN...analyst harkened back to his law school days...and possibly revealed a bit of his formation as a liberal:
TOOBIN: You know, it’s funny, the way that this hearing goes, you would think that Supreme Court precedent is some unchanging thing- that is just the law that is changed. But if you look at the Second Amendment, that’s something that’s changed dramatically over the last- for 50 years, including when I was in law school, which was more recently than 50 years ago- the idea that you had a Second Amendment right to a gun was considered preposterous. The text of the Second Amendment, I believe we have it- we have it in our system- you know, speaks of a well-regulated militia and the right to bear arms.
Well, courts used to say, well, this only affects the rights of state militias. But the Supreme Court, two years ago, in the famous Heller decision, said that when it comes to the federal government, we- individuals have a personal right to bear arms, and the D.C. gun control law was thus unconstitutional....
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When I went to school the very idea that liberal elitists like Jeffrey Toobin breathed the same air as we did was considered preposterous.
They actually think that they can just pass a law and everyone will line up and hand over their shotgun.
So will Jeffrey Tobin consider placing a sign on his lawn clearly indicating that the owner of this home does not believe in the constitutional right to own a gun (Neal Boortz once asked Cynthia Tucker this question)?
The sheeple are baffled why everyone else hasn’t rolled over with them.
exception-proves-rule etc. etc.
Hey Toobin .. There are approximately 80 million gun owners in America, who own a combined total of about 258 million guns. THIS is what is keeping the socialists among us like you at bay. Walk up my driveway to take mine away and find out how well they work!
Indeed it would. I mean what is a thief, or a burglar ? At their core they are liberal socialists. A burglar sees a disparity in wealth distribution and proceeds to redistribute your wealth without your consent. And if he is armed and you deem him to be a threat, you put a peace of lead in him and there is one less socialist in the world. So yes, without liberals and socialists the need for guns would drop drastically.
Now...why would that be? lol
Could it have something to do with the great American people waking up and deciding to STOP the trashing of their precious consitution?
Liberals KNOW that an armed populace is the ONLY way revolution can be carried out to an end game that could crush them and their ideals forever.
We all knew and respected the old Dem pary....since it has been overtly corrupted by anti-American, death loving secularists...it is no longer a party, it is a cult.
We need to be armed.
It isn't something to be taken lightly anymore.
The fact this azzhole thinks a right is revolutionary tells us all we need to know about academia.
I once heard that if liberals interpreted the second amendment the way they interpret the first amendment not only would people have a right to own a handgun but they would also have a right to own a ballistic missile. Plus not only would they have the right to own a ICBM but everyone should honor and praise the people for owning a missile and a failure to do that would be considered highly intolerant.
peace = piece.
It all began with Andy Griffith only allowing Barney Fife one bullet. Who knew how that was going to blow back on us?
There are 250+ million privately-owned firearms in the United States.4
4. BATFE estimated 215 million guns in 1999 (Crime Gun Trace Reports, 1999, National Report, Nov. 2000, p. ix , www.atf.gov/firearms/ycgii/1999/index.htm. The National Academy of Sciences estimated 258 million (National Research Council, Firearms and Violence: A Critical Review, National Academies Press, 2005).
Cornell is really not Ivy League. It is more Mildew League.
I have always said, gun control, and in this case gun hatred, is to give an inanimate object a moral quality. That is the ultimate in materialism.
This goofball Boston reared/educated cluster**** never lived in an area where he needed to defend himself against the thugs that this government won’t lock up and the illegals they won’t round up. Come spend a couple of months on the border you jerk and your mind will be changed real damn fast. ***ing elitist idiot. Educated WAY beyond their intelligence.
Actually they were packed during the 30's and 40's.
Mao said it best: “Political power comes out of the barrel of a gun”.
In addition to that, handguns are primarily defensive weapons - In the military they're used as a "last resort," so when the government bans handguns, they're banning defensive weapons, again, removing the ability of individuals to protect themselves.
Finally, the Constitution CLEARLY makes the distinction between "The State" and "The People." Why it is that these "over-educated morons" choose to ignore that is completely beyond me...
Mark
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