Posted on 10/17/2012 7:11:14 AM PDT by VRWCmember
Retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, speaking at an event hosted by the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence’s Legal Action Project, said Monday said that having “some kind of constitutional right to a cell phone with a predialed 911 at your bedside might be better protection than a gun.”
“I’m not sure I actually have captured the entire question, but it does occur to me that one thing that I thought about from time to time is that maybe you have some kind of constitutional right to have a cell phone with a predialed 911 number at your bedside, and that might provide you with a little better protection than a gun, which you’re not used to using,” Stevens said.
Jonathan Lowy, Brady Center Legal Action Project director, read a question from the audience, saying: “The Supreme Court held that the 2nd Amendment assures our right to have a handgun in the home for self-defense as you say. This question’s asked: ‘That protects only gun owners. What about those who don’t have guns? Surely they have a right of self-defense. Instead of relying on the 2nd Amendment and dealing with gun laws, wouldn’t it be more rational to rely directly on the right we all have to self-defense. What are your thoughts on that?’
Stevens was appointed to the high court in 1975 by President Gerald Ford. He retired in 2010. He is considered the third-longest serving justice.
George Washington used ATT. Adams was a Verizon guy. Jefferson preferred sprint. It’s right there in the Constitution, just before the right to abortion.
I think mental retardation should be a disqualifier for SCOTUS
Reflects badly on those who supported his elevation to the Supremes.
Good Lord.
Yo, Judge!
You get a cell phone to work next to my bed, or ANYWHERE on my property and I’ll kiss your @$$.
He’s been on the job too long... (or, good thing he’s retired).
Retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, speaking at an event hosted by the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence’s Legal Action Project, said Monday said that having “some kind of constitutional right to a cell phone with a predialed 911 at your bedside might be better protection than a gun.”
This Justice is some kind of moron.Imagine.Your in your bed sleeping.Someone breaks into your home and you awake to the sound of breaking glass.Now your going to protect your life by using a cell phone to call 911.
By the time the local Police Come you or your family would be dead.
Thanks Mr. Justice.I’ll stick to having a gun Nearby.
His physical and mental decline will be portrayed onscreen by Meryl Streep.
You have the right to own property... say for example, a house. That doesn't mean the country owes you a house.
Equal opportunity is not the same thing as equal outcomes. The first is a right; the second is not.
What is the victim gonna do with a govt provided phone? Hit the attacker over the head with it? UGH
‘That protects only gun owners. What about those who don’t have guns? Surely they have a right of self-defense. Instead of relying on the 2nd Amendment and dealing with gun laws, wouldn’t it be more rational to rely directly on the right we all have to self-defense. What are your thoughts on that?’My thoughts on that? The idiot who wrote that question has not one clue what is meant by self-defense. The only way to exercise "the right we all have to self-defense" is to defend your own freaking self with whatever means you have at your disposal, dumbass! If you call 911 on your constitutionally guaranteed pre-dialed cell phone, you are depending on someone else miles away to defend you. By definition, that is NOT self-defense.
“Stop! Or I’ll dial!!!”
“a predialed 911 at your bedside might be better protection than a gun.”
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In order to what? Call someone to come over with a gun?
This election is as much about protecting us from idiocy as anything else.
‘That protects only gun owners. What about those who don’t have guns? Surely they have a right of self-defense.”
Ummmm...get a gun? How hard is that? EVERYONE has the right to self defense...some simply choose to not excercise it. Tuff toenails.
I frequently ask my Lib relatives (I no longer keep Lib friends), in your world, what ISN’T a RIGHT?
This concept was called out by Canadian Supreme Court Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin when she wrote this: "Access to a waiting list is not access to health care."
William Flax
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