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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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....
Bump!
Toobin is an idiot, there no longer can be any doubt about that.
Okay, you can stay. But the rest of you lawyers get on the bus and over the cliff. lol
peace = piece.
Please
The Second Amendment is an Absolute “Inherent” Right and God given.
Speaking of Absolute, I think I will have one.
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.
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.
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...
He ain’t educated, he’s indoctrinated.
I think it’s the biggest Ivy League school.
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.
Jeffrey Toobin. Your man card is revoked!
Toobin is a pussy, just like the girl who threw the ceremonial first pitch at the All Star Game last night.
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.
( Evil laugh ) He he he!
Harvard
Yale
Princeton
Cornell
Brown
Dartmouth
Columbia
Penn
Cheers!
Cheers!
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