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I say we uses this to get liberals to support a repeal of the 14th amendment.
and thus get rid of:
- illegal alien babies.
- Roe v. Wade (depended upon incorporation)
- Federal usurpation of our right to teach religion ideas in school, as well as generally practice religion around our state governments in general.(also depended upon incorporation)
- Eliminate the looming threat of liberals using the equal protection clause to impose more socialist/leftist madness on us.
I grew up here in rural michigan where guns are more common than people. In my 45 years I have never seen a shooting or personally known anyone who was shot. Its been nearly 30 years since the last murder in my little town.
Yeah the bloodbath will happen any minute now.
A Sowell BTT. He is, as usual, straight to the point.
Not so fast! The standard view is that rights in the Constitution as ratified and the original BOR were preexisting and that CONUS and the BOR simply enumerated them. If that's the case, rights that are actually in there cannot be amended away, because all you'd be amending away is the redundant enumeration, not the right itself.
I wonder does he feel the same way about all contracts?
The whole reason for having a constitution is so that we can enumerate exactly to what we are agreeing. If we don't agree to that any more we can change it by agreeing to an amendment.
We don't need any judge trying to interpret the contemporary significance of what is in plain english.
There won’t be any blood bath. Gun bans invariably take a bad crime conflict situation and make it worse, not better.
Note clearly dear reader: An unarmed person is a serf. An armed person is a citizen. This principle goes back to Ancient Greece. A citizen had his own armour and was expected to defend his polis.
The individual has a God given right to defend him or herself.
Me? No way.
Truth be known, I have, on occasion, shown some intense dislike with a FTF or FTE.
I usually get over it.
The most important arenas of gun and self-defense rights are the state legislatures.
"Why Switzerland has the lowest crime rate in the world."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nf1OgV449g&feature=related
BTTT
It is truly a mark against us that it took this long to reach this decision. It’s not possible to imagine what black America would look like if, in 1875, Senator Pomeroy’s wish had been granted the full authority of law.
“...And if the cabin door of the freedman is broken open and the intruder enters for purposes as vile as were known to slavery, then should a well-loaded musket be in the hand of the occupant to send the polluted wretch to another world, where his wretched-ness will forever remain complete.” (quoted in Justice Alito’s opinion, pg. 34)
It is possible to compare the effects of an enforced culture of helplessness to the the effects of a culture of self determination. We don’t even need to use black vs. white comparisons. We can look a the standards of life in overregulated cities in nanny states with unlimited power to regulate everything. They all suck.
It is certain that this country would be a very different place if there had never been an era when butchers could loose bands of thugs on their enemimes and hide behind a pen.
On this subject, I will do something I never thought I would do. I apologize to all black men and women who suffered under the insidious stupidity of gun bans. Our government robbed you of the ability to defend yourselves and speak force to tyrants. It was disgusting and I regret that it ever happened.
On this same subject, I offer absolutely no apology to the various autocrats who believe they can persecute with law, destroy with regulation, and steal with impunity. The Supreme Court has made clear the relationship between you and your victims.
A much more genteel and polite day-to-day social interaction in America.
The media, like Breyer, might do well to reflect on what is their job and what is the voting public's job. The media's job should be to give us the information to make up our own minds, not slant and filter the news to fit the media's vision.To the contrary, there should no such identifiable entity as "the media." The press should be free. If the press were free (as it was in the founding era, and up to the Civil War), newspapers would contend over what was true and what was important.But as it is, there is a taboo within journalism against questioning the objectivity of other journalists. That taboo is the natural result of expensive membership in a newswire service, since the value of such membership is only as great as the credence the public gives to the newswire's reports. We should always have taken warning from the title, the Associated Press - an associated press is not a free press. Certainly not a competitive one.
Claims of objectivity are self-negating - belief in one's own objectivity is the essence of subjectivity and the very opposite of actual objectivity. Any effort toward actual objectivity inevitably begins with an examination of the known reasons why you might not be objective. And since journalism is selling - selling the idea that its reports are important to the Republic, and essential reading for each individual member of the public - reasons why journalism might not be objective are not especially subtle. If one has the willingness to see them, which a massive propaganda campaign seeks to prevent us from having.