Supreme Court Agrees To Hear Chicago Gun Ban Case

WLS Radio | 09/30/09 | WLS Radio

[Lurker]

Breaking on WLS Talk Radio. SCOTUS has agreed to hear the NRA case against the Chicago handgun ban.

[massgopguy]

The Wise Latina says that states don’t have to honor the Second Amendment. I wonder if she thinks that the Federal Government doesn’t have to honor the Tenth Amendment?

[mentor2k]

Let em ask me for my wallet.

[GOPsterinMA]

Perfectly stated!

[Pharmboy]

Yep...Kennedy was with us.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

Any doubt how Sotomayor will rule? No, none.

Looking for a good outcome to support the ruling that RKBA = individual right as the gun banners arguments continue to unravel.

I so fear the justices that Obama will appoint. Two conservatives on SCOTUS are the best thing to come from the Bush Administration. Bush was no conservative, but he leaned that way at times and I’m glad SCOTUS appointments were among those times.

Almost as much as I fear Obama’s SCOTUS appointments, I fear disgruntled Republicans who will vote 3rd party and give Obama the chance to appoint more SCOTUS judges during an 8 year administration. That terrifies me. Bad as McLame is, we would not have gotten a Sotomayor. He would have given us someone left of center, but not left of Lenin.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

Keep showing the tapes of innocent black kids being assassinated with railroad ties. If only he was carrying and could retreat.

[Dan Nunn]

Is this the beginning of the end of the Republic?

Imagine the Men in Black issuing a ruling affirming the gun ban in Chicago. Now, there is legal precedent in doing so, so hundreds of other liberal cities follow suit - San Francisco, New York, all the rest...

Is this the “from my cold, dead hands” part we’ve always warned about?

Of course, the Supreme Court can do the right thing and rule how the founding fathers intended. But pardon me for not holding much faith in government right now...

[Dan Nunn]

Looks like they integrated my Kel Tec P3AT (or the smaller .32 variant) into a wallet!

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

It seems that only the 2nd amendment doesnt apply to the states, huh?

Wait until the Roberts court clears up this question. I have a sneaking suspicion I am going to REALLY like his answer, but let's see.

[Dan Nunn]

Don’t forget Harriet Miers. We had to fight for those appointments, even against President Bush’s judgment.

[Dan Nunn]

It seems that only the 2nd amendment doesnt apply to the states, huh?

It seems that way on its face, but there are certain clauses of the Bill of Rights that have not, this page has some good information about it.

[Dead Corpse]

Is this the “from my cold, dead hands” part we’ve always warned about?

Yes. Let's keep an eye on it...

[editor-surveyor]

This could go either way!

[madamemayhem]

the court will strike down the ban as unconstitutional. normal, law abiding citizens with go on a gun buying frenzy, and crime rates will drop dramatically and impressively in a super short time. the voters will see what their stupid dem government has wrought on the city and vote them out. repub candidates will win in all precincts, sweeping the dems and their corruption out of the city and inevitably the state, and chicago will be cleaned up. within 3 yrs chicago will be a shining example of american can do spirit, clean, plenty of new jobs, low crime rate, low taxes, and no more corruption. a veritable heaven of conservative ideals. ..............or not.

[Dan Nunn]

One thing’s for sure, either way... stock up on ammo!

[Slings and Arrows]

Doesn’t Bubba’s Armed Torch Force consider that thing an AOW?

[Cyber Liberty]

If newspapers were licensed like gun owners it would be a different song, huh? I can make the case that since newspapers are made of a limited natural resource they should be only two pages long, and you can only buy 1 a day (or less).

Better idea:

This way, we can see who's reading what.

[green iguana]

Woo Hoo!

Incorporate that baby.

[ExSoldier]

You can't ban evil.

Just think if we could though. Half of Congress would be uninhabited. If somebody enters a room full of politicians and shouts: "YOU LIE!" before leaving how in the world do any of the pols know to whom he was referring?

[ExSoldier]

As long as we hold the 5-4 split majority we should be okay, especially with the Heller case as some sort of friendly precedent. We need the 2nd to be incorporated. That will reverse gun bans across the nation and prevent another AWB from taking hold, without challenges. Unless of course this USSC opinion specifically exempts such.