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To: savedbygrace
Hopefully, the Roberts Court will take the appeal and rule in favor of the concept that right to keep and bear arms is a individual right everywhere, in every State.

And leave the interpretation of that right to the federal judiciary. So if the courts decide concealed carry isn't protected by the 2nd Amendment, Congress can ban it nationwide and void all state laws protecting carry.

358 posted on 06/04/2009 1:01:11 PM PDT by Mojave (Don't blame me. I voted for McClintock.)
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To: Mojave

I don’t doubt that the Court would still try to infringe around the edges, but if it decides that the 2nd is incorporated, then the concepts of Heller will bring us closer to original intent than if they don’t agree to incorporate. IMO.

The strange thing about Scalia’s opinion in Heller is that he seems to agree that the 2nd is an individual right to KEEP arms, but not so much to BEAR arms. He would allow much more infringement of the bearing than of the keeping.


359 posted on 06/04/2009 1:17:45 PM PDT by savedbygrace (You are only leading if someone follows. Otherwise, you just wandered off... [Smokin' Joe])
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To: Mojave
They can try. But then again, trying to do so could very well touch off CWII.

After all, preventing tyranny is one of the expressed reasons for us to have RKBA in the first place.

363 posted on 06/04/2009 1:24:52 PM PDT by Dead Corpse (III)
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