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CNN's Toobin: 'Preposterous' to Believe in 2nd Amend. Right Back at Harvard
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| 7/15/2009
| Matthew Balan
Posted on 07/15/2009 4:39:53 PM PDT by Pyro7480
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To: Pyro7480
“When I was in law school...the idea that you had a Second Amendment right to a gun was considered preposterous Why don't you read the 2nd Amend, read the historical context it was written in, read the commentary of the people that wrote it, read the reason it was thought necessary to put in the Constitution... AND TRY THINKING ON IT FOR YOURSELF!!! instead of just regurgitating what you were told by others....
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posted on
07/15/2009 5:30:42 PM PDT
by
tophat9000
(Obama plans to fix America like he fixed his dog)
To: xcamel
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posted on
07/15/2009 5:35:38 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
("A new Dark Ages made all the more terrible and prolonged by the sinister powers of science.")
To: Pyro7480
Toobin is an idiot, there no longer can be any doubt about that.
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posted on
07/15/2009 5:37:28 PM PDT
by
jwalsh07
To: OldDeckHand
Okay, you can stay. But the rest of you lawyers get on the bus and over the cliff. lol
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posted on
07/15/2009 5:37:35 PM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
To: libh8er
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posted on
07/15/2009 5:40:23 PM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
To: Natural Law
The Second Amendment is an Absolute “Inherent” Right and God given.
Speaking of Absolute, I think I will have one.
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posted on
07/15/2009 5:43:20 PM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
To: Personal Responsibility
You clearly do not understand the 2nd Amendment. It does not grant a right. So revoking it does nothing.
You can not take a RIGHT away. That shows a real basic misunderstanding about what rights are.
To: Personal Responsibility
If I do not like it, I can work through the Congress and Amendment process to get it changed.Not so fast!
The Bill of rights does not grant rights - it enumerates individual rights that come from a higher authority than the Constitution. Accordingly, the Bill of Rights cannot be changed by a constitutional amendment.
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posted on
07/15/2009 5:46:11 PM PDT
by
CharacterCounts
(November 4, 2008 - the day America drank the Kool-Aid)
To: Personal Responsibility
Just out of curiosity, do you believe individuals have a right to protect themselves?
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posted on
07/15/2009 5:52:08 PM PDT
by
paul51
(11 September 2001 - Never forget)
To: Pyro7480
Hhmmm... Having just gotten done fighting a bloody war over INDIVIDUAL Rights and the proper role of government, the Founders in a BILL OF RIGHTS gave a "right" to State militias.
Now that IS preposterous. The Right was Individual. As ALL Rights are. The Founders expounded upon this at length.
Denying this is either stupid or evil. In the Dems case, we can assume both...
To: Pyro7480
He ain’t educated, he’s indoctrinated.
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posted on
07/15/2009 6:27:17 PM PDT
by
Islander7
(If you want to anger conservatives, lie to them. If you want to anger liberals, tell them the truth.)
To: Dead Corpse; All
What part of "shall not be infringed" is ambiguous?
You couldn't string together 4 more unabiguous words if you tried.
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posted on
07/15/2009 6:28:39 PM PDT
by
Red in Blue PA
(If guns cause crime, then all of mine are defective!)
To: Don Corleone
I think it’s the biggest Ivy League school.
To: Personal Responsibility
” If I do not like it, I can work through the Congress and Amendment process to get it changed.”
I believe you are incorrect. The original Bill of Right can not be altered and since they are enumerated in the Bill of Rights, all citizens have them by birth. Since these Rights were not granted by men, they can not be taken away by men.
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posted on
07/15/2009 6:34:13 PM PDT
by
CapnJack
To: Pyro7480
Jeffrey Toobin. Your man card is revoked!
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posted on
07/15/2009 6:40:20 PM PDT
by
Hat-Trick
(Do you trust a government that cannot trust you with guns?)
To: Pyro7480
Hey Toobin, come knocking on my door and try to deny my Individual Right to own a gun.
Toobin is a pussy, just like the girl who threw the ceremonial first pitch at the All Star Game last night.
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posted on
07/15/2009 6:43:58 PM PDT
by
Kickass Conservative
(If Hitler used a TelePrompter, we would all be speaking German...)
To: Pyro7480
He is an elitist and a moron. Militia was legally defined over two hundred years ago and has been altered only slightly once since then and that was to distinguish between the state militia and unorganized militia, which is the general public.
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posted on
07/15/2009 6:46:59 PM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Socialism is the belief that most people are better off if everyone was equally poor and miserable.)
To: Pyro7480; All
( Evil laugh ) He he he!
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posted on
07/15/2009 6:49:31 PM PDT
by
Islander7
(If you want to anger conservatives, lie to them. If you want to anger liberals, tell them the truth.)
To: grey_whiskers
The
Poison Ivy League:
Harvard
Yale
Princeton
Cornell
Brown
Dartmouth
Columbia
Penn
Cheers!
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posted on
07/15/2009 6:59:20 PM PDT
by
Islander7
(If you want to anger conservatives, lie to them. If you want to anger liberals, tell them the truth.)
To: Islander7
LOL!! Consider that sobriquet STOLEN.
Cheers!
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posted on
07/15/2009 7:09:41 PM PDT
by
grey_whiskers
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