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Breyer: Second Amendment Not About 'the Right of an Individual to Keep a Gun Next to His Bed'
pjmedia.com ^ | 8/23/2017 | Bridget Johnson

Posted on 08/23/2017 9:19:16 AM PDT by rktman

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To: rktman

I don’t like Breyers ice cream. Too sweet. I don’t know why they think that dumping extra sugar into it makes it more enjoyable.


41 posted on 08/23/2017 9:55:33 AM PDT by Tucker39 (Read: Psalm 145. The whole psalm.....aloud; as praise to our God.)
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To: rktman

Breyer needs to retire.

5.56mm


42 posted on 08/23/2017 9:58:45 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: rktman
One might suggest that Breyer read a bit more extensively what was being said in America, contemporaneously with the drafting of the Constitution. That gun by the bed of a responsible teenager was something General Washington recommended to Congress as the best way to safeguard his victory.

Right & Duty To Keep & Bear Arms.

43 posted on 08/23/2017 9:59:42 AM PDT by Ohioan
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To: faithhopecharity
Americans have the right to self-defense IN AMERICA, not just by their bedsides.

Unless they reside in New Jersey, New York City, Connecticut, Massachusetts...and a bunch of others and have not begged permission from and paid a ransom to their state government (which in New Jersey is almost never granted).

44 posted on 08/23/2017 10:00:46 AM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Building the Wall! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: rktman

screw you, breyer

molon labe


45 posted on 08/23/2017 10:00:49 AM PDT by QualityMan (The Adults are back in town)
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To: rktman

Every citizen should have the ability to be secure in their homes, in fact wherever they go. An unarmed man cannot defend himself or his family.

This to me is the core of the issue.

Do we allow people the ability to defend themselves and their families, or don’t we?

Extending that, do we allow them to defend their friends and associates, or even members of the public around them, perhaps even police officers who need help?

This one thought always brings this into focus for me.

“When seconds count, the police will be there in ten minutes or less.”

If you happen to live in the country, what then? No police will be showing up. The country sheriff’s deputy may, but how long will that take?

An armed society, is a civil society. Gun crime drops in every place where concealed carry is allowed.

Without the ability to be armed, our citizens are nothing more than helpless prey.

So many of the loudest mouths when it comes to taking our guns away, have security people to defend them.

Any person trying to take my guns should have their guns taken first, and their security detail let go. Then publish their home address.

We’ll see how long that lasts.


46 posted on 08/23/2017 10:08:58 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Exempting Trump and his team, our media and government have adopted the Zoolander management style.)
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To: rktman

Isn’t it interesting that Breyer outs himself as an opponent of the Second Amendment at the same time the first Amendment is under existential attack by the left-wing. The leftists know that Second Amendment is the key to keeping the First Amendment...


47 posted on 08/23/2017 10:12:57 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: Bob434
"Sure- the government will sometimes back down from armed confrontations with citizens (sometimes)- but then the government WILL railroad those citizens by arresting them and keeping them in prison for many years without a trial like they did to bundy and his associates- Heck- the government will even set up ambushes and murder some of them like they did to Lavoy Finicum"

Sure, its not perfect and we must work within the law, while some people abuse the color of law and abuse the constitution. Lavoy was murdered by an abusive FBI and state police on his way to a friendly Sherriff. While he may have been right in his principals, he died for not obeying law enforcement which abused their authority and fired on innocent people not posing a threat and he was killed under color of law, but unjustly so.

The Nevada Jury for the second time in the Bundy Federal trial just acquitted the four people accused of conspiracy. Two immediately freed and two other waiting to see if the government will try a third time. The people in this case saw through the government abuse and found the defendants innocent.

Those of us that live in states like California with nearly communistic legislatures full of super majority democrats are passing unconstitutional laws that take years to go through the courts and often times the most overturned circuit court (9'th) in the nation lets California get away with it and when the SCOTUS does not act we are left to be outlaws in our own state and nation or risk going to jail for ignoring unconstitutional laws. Or in many cases the Sherriff in a given county ignore the state laws as well and do not enforce them.

In any case Breyer is dishonest in his assertions as he is most of the time trying to impose his own liberal views. It does not change God's law and our own Declaration of Independence of the right of self defense and liberty.

48 posted on 08/23/2017 10:15:34 AM PDT by Mat_Helm
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To: rktman

If it were possible to call up the constitutional convention or to rewrite the Second Amendment and have it approved by the states, that could clarify this issue, it would be phenomenal. Replace this with a new second amendment that says that the individual, a lawful citizen, has the right to keep and bear arms. and that this right show not be infringed by any state or local government. Unfortunately, we probably could not get a reasonable statement, that protects our right to keep and bear arms, for our personal defense, in the home and outside, as well as to have our personal weapons available, should it militia become necessary. I don’t think a second amendment replacement could reasonably delve into what qualifies as a weapon, because I think the original intent was that we have our weapons to serve in the militia, and today’s personal weapons would not be sufficient for militia duty. Anyway, it would be great, if we could, to get clarification about our individual right, as it has been historically interpreted, to keep and bear arms without infringement.


49 posted on 08/23/2017 10:31:09 AM PDT by Reno89519 (Drain the Swamp is not party specific. Lyn' Ted is still a liar, Good riddance to him.)
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To: rktman

Because Justice Breyer dresses up in a furry suit and tries to have sex with underage girls online, the right of the people to keep & bear arms shall not be infringed.
*fixed it*


50 posted on 08/23/2017 10:36:35 AM PDT by glasseye
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Hmmmm. Should we expect him at the next “Furries” convention?


51 posted on 08/23/2017 10:40:09 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: rktman
So according to this idiot, the 2nd Amendment is there do to fear that if there wasn't a provision that the militia, like all other militias in world history, can be armed, people would think the Founders were trying to create the world's first unarmed militia. To let us know that this militia is like all others and it can have military grade arms, but the average people couldn't, they clearly wrote that, "The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."

Makes total sense.

52 posted on 08/23/2017 10:40:29 AM PDT by guitar Josh
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To: PGR88

Militias and armed citizens pre-existed the 2a.

If you read this, they had to have exited before that.

Which means Breyers point rejects itself. To have a militia meant citizens had personal guns by their beds.

Militias armed themselves, then. With personally bought and owned weapons.

Breyer is a retread, lying socialist.


53 posted on 08/23/2017 10:41:03 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

He’s (fortunately for society) on his way “out”. LOL


54 posted on 08/23/2017 10:42:06 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation camp?)
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To: bankwalker

“hunting” what or who?


55 posted on 08/23/2017 10:43:11 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation camp?)
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To: rktman
If I had to find the emanations from the penumbra of Breyer's thinking, the most generous interpretation I could come up with is that he's thinking of ye olde days of local town armories, where villages would keep the shields, swords and lances locked in a stone building to be handed out when the castle is being stormed.

In this sense, the people get to "keep" their arms, but not as their personal property at all times.

Very quaint thinking, I suppose.

-PJ

56 posted on 08/23/2017 10:51:32 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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To: faithhopecharity
So why shoot your silly mouth off, just to make a fool of yoruself?

"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt."

57 posted on 08/23/2017 10:56:13 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts ("Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment." - Will Rogers)
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To: PGR88

A few of these decrepit Justices are holding on to spite the country and have no clue to textualism. I hope,in all due respect, “natural causes” happens soon.


58 posted on 08/23/2017 11:06:06 AM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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No ahole, that’s exactly what it’s about.


59 posted on 08/23/2017 11:09:15 AM PDT by Maverick68
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

Indeed. It’s amazing just how ignorant and stupid some Supreme Court justices’ statements can be.


60 posted on 08/23/2017 11:14:38 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicans are not born, they're excreted." -- Marcus Tillius Cicero)
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