[11B3]

Now where are all of the Bush bashers? Come on - I know you're out there - tell us how this is a bad thing. Well, it is, if you're a liberal.

[jwalsh07]

OK, I'm giving W a pass on sending the jerk off in chief to East Timor. With any luck he'll be caught masturbating in public and you know how they like to fit the punishment to the crime over there. Off with his head....

[anniegetyourgun]

Oddly enough they aren't anywhere to be found on the "House Plans To Send Borders Bill" thread either. Must be busy digging up something to post in order to start yet another Bush-bashing thread. After all, it's not a good day for them unless they can post at least two dozen, making some stuff up in the process.

[Squantos]

Not a Bush Basher but I am getting tired of "anyone" telling me what the constitution says.......3rd grade aside I have never had a problem knowing what it does and doesn't say so why in heck do they......

A poor precident has been set IMHO. One administration say's yea then IMHO the next can say nea.........a door I really don't want to open.........just paranoia on my part ? I hope so.......

I am as pro second amendment as anyone here but when a politician hand's me a rose I still look for the thorns............

Just my opinion of course, right or wrong mine............... Stay Safe 11B3 !

[Redbob]

"Come on - I know you're out there - tell us how this is a bad thing."

That's easy.
I'll tell you how this is a "bad thing," and I'm NOT a "Bush-basher" - well, not today anyway.

It goes like this, and the Brady Bunch is secretly dancing with joy:
The Justice Dept. doesn't want the Emerson case or similar ones going to the SCOTUS because they KNOW they'd lose - and then all the 20,000 laws, little and big, that have nibbled away at the Second Amendment for the past 150 years would be declared un-Constitutional!

There'd be no laws against open or concealed carry, no laws against owning a machine gun in Michigan, etc.

About the only laws that might survive would be those against criminals and minors possessing guns.
Or should that have been "minors and other criminals"?

So this decision is the best outcome the Brady Bunch could have hoped for in the Emerson case, which was an especially serious example of a law that simply violates the Second Amendment, and would not have stood up under the scrutiny of scholars like Clarence Thomas.