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To: firebrand

Do we agree that the US constitution is a document that places limits on federal government, not on US citizens’ rights?

If so, then maybe this broad actually has a point. Does the US constitution place limits on state governments? Or just on federal government?

My head is spinning.

If the broad is right, then who has the authority to take a person’s guns away or enforce current gun restrictions? Certainly NOT the ATF...correct? It would seem to me that the ATF is a criminal organization. If an individual state decides to ban “militias”, then all the citizens of that state would be screwed, would they not?

How can she possibly be right?

If she is right, then the federal government has been consistently in violation of the constitution for well over a century on many many different topics.


13 posted on 05/28/2009 6:59:01 PM PDT by mamelukesabre (Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum (If you want peace prepare for war))
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To: mamelukesabre
-- If she is right, then the federal government has been consistently in violation of the constitution for well over a century on many many different topics. --

Yup. Not that she's right on her read of Presser, she's not. When it comes to the 2nd amendment, every government, state, fed, local, is working against the right of the people to keep and bear arms. They are in cahoots.

The 1935 Miller case is another one that has been misconstrued -- most recently by 9 of 9 justices of the United States Supreme Court in the Heller case. Yep, even Scalia, Roberts and Thomas are in on the unconstitutional gun grabbing game.

18 posted on 05/28/2009 7:04:10 PM PDT by Cboldt
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