Bare Arm
Bear arms
I strongly believe the citizens of Wash DC should be encouraged (if not forced) to roll up their sleeves and get a job.
“My own bet,” said Sanford Levinson, a law professor at the University of Texas, “is that Heller will more likely than not turn out to be of no significance to anyone but constitutional theorists.”
OK, now all the liberals have been heard from...
Mayor Shortshanks says the Bill of Rights does not apply to his kingdom.
Resist..disobey..stand up for a change and don’t depend on any one else to carry the water!
That simply will not happen.
It's like bees fighting back by stinging. A bee here and there might do it, but unless you kick over the hive you won't find enough of them stinging, and the enemy survives. The left is going to be patient until we all die out slowly and singly, and there's nobody around who even remembers what a "right" is.
Bare Arm
Bear arms
Stop it! Stop it! Stop it! I'm going to start screaming if I continue to see this posted on FR!
If this were the citizen doing this, the courts would impose PUNATIVE DAMAGES without blinking an eye.
Local tyrants will not change until they spend time in jail for contempt.
And how many such cases have made it to the federal court in the last 9 months?
You people are all too negative. No, Heller didn’t say that every person has the right to be provided with a full auto at government expense at birth, but it did make the extremely important ruling that the 2nd is a fundamental right. The particulars will be decided as time goes on, just as with the civil rights cases starting 5 1/2 decades ago. One salami slice at a time, just like the antis got us. This is not going to be an overnight thing.
Note that there is currently a suit against Chicago, asserting that it is violating the 2nd, and asserting that the 2nd applies to it via incorporation (courtesy of the 14th). It is being brought by the same attorney who won Heller, Gura. It is a simple yes or no question: does the 2nd apply to states and their subdivisions (i.e. cities) via the 14th? Here’s a link to the site: http://www.chicagoguncase.com/
Most localities whose laws were challenged have decided to repeal those laws rather than fight a losing battle. The other cases are slowly making their way through the court system.
Incorporation my boy, Incorporation.
They’re is also about a mile wide loophole, for “reasonable restrictions”. And the states are driving a truck through it.
Which is why Americans should ignore the anti-Heller, unconstitutional laws in these states/cities.
Andrew Jackson once said:”Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it.”
Truth is, NO ONE is bound by the courts to do anything! People abide by rulings to maintain order. Once anyone disregards the courts, we are all free to do likewise.
We have seen the Constitution trampled underfoot by the dukes, earls and assorted nobility in Versailles on the Potomac.
It is time to right the wrongs. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not you and I, who?
Mayor Daley to Supremes: To Hell with Heller!!!
But when they win, it is instantly implemented and settled for all time. Roe vs Wade for instance. Bam, instant law, instant implementation, instant universalism.
“Bare arms”....drives me almost as nuts as when I see someone say that they have a “12 guage shotgun”....
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The Heller decision is a BAD thing. The court says you have the right to bear arms “BUT”... If there’s a “but”, then there’s no right. The court says that you have the right to defend yourself “in the home”. Apparently that right does not extend past your own four walls. The court says that there cannot be a total ban on handguns...it doesn’t say there can’t be bans on certain types of handguns...or ammunition...or.... This decision throws the door WIDE open for the socialists to further ban guns. “Reasonable gun control”.....
Now, I look at the second amendment differently. First of all, remember that the Bill of Rights was demanded by those who OPPOSED the Constitution, as a hedge against the Constitition!! The Constitution gives full control over the militia to Congress. This was a huge sticking point. If Congress has control of the militia, what do the States have to defend themselves against a tyrannical central government? The Congress may or may not even arm or train a militia. The Second amendment was written to fix this egregious error.
The States have been VERY lax in their duties.
The individual right to bear arms is, I think, only obliquely found in the second amendment. That the Founders wanted individuals armed is beyond question...so much so that they did not see the necessity to specifically state so...unfortunately. Besides, the Ninth and Tenth amendments technically are sufficient to cover the individual right to bear arms, but who ever talks about these? One of the problems I have with the Constition and the Bill of Rights is that it is too vague. While “we” may know what it means, others don’t. I think things like this should be PAINFULLY explicit. No vagaries...which will be taken advantage of by the unscrupulous.
The Second Amendment (or the ninth, or the tenth) does not guarantee your right to bear arms. What does? YOU, bearing arms.
