Posted on 12/19/2011 1:37:20 PM PST by neverdem
If Illegal Aliens have the right to bear arms, wouldn’t that mean that the US Judiciary branch would say that any armed invasion had a right to bear arms too?
Glad to see it explicitly called out in court precedent - now let's go after the voter ID opponents, since most if not all of their objections actually fit non-citizens rather than citizens.
That would be a duh....
Correct. Constitution protections should only apply to citizens and those here legally. Anyone else is a potential or actual enemy combatant.
Illegal immigrants do not have a right to bear arms under the U.S. Constitution, a federal appeals court ruled on Friday.
Therefore illegals have no constitutional rights period!
Armed Illegal Immigrant = Invading Soldier.
Do illegal aliens have a right to freedon of speech? What about assembly? It should be the same way with firearms! Guns are a HUMAN right, not a political privledge.
Don’t worry the Supremes will overturn it.
If this guy gets amnesty under Newt’s amnesty plan, would the amnesty cover also this crime?
So which is it? Does Nature’s God bestow inalienable rights to life, liberty and property or are these constructs of the almighty state? Those of us who thought these questions answered in antiquity are clearly deluded.
Great news indeed.
Common sense, so precious because it’s so rare these days.
“What part of ‘shall not be infringed’ don’t they understand” begs the question “What is the scope of the ‘right of the people to keep and bear arms?’”.
If the scope of the ‘right of the people to keep and bear arms’ does not cover an illegal alien, constraining the illegal alien from keeping and bearing arms is not an infringement. That begs the question “What else is not within the scope of the ‘right of the people to keep and bear arms’ and therefore not covered?”.
You’re absolutely right. However, we as a country have the right to decide whether lawbreakers may persist in enjoying certain rights while in commission of a crime. You don’t have the right to possession of a firearm while holding up a bank. Once you make a conscious choice to commit a crime, you have effectively waived your rights on a gamble that you won’t get caught.
None? Can they be executed without a trial? Gang-raped?
The rewriting of the Second Amendment begins. Now the “right of the People” has magically become “the right of citizens”... Look for further changes in the near future.
Brilliant move by the Left... Put the 2A and the anti-illegals groups on the Right against each other.
The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.
Illegals should be treated as invaders. Period.
Amazing, foreigners here illegally aren’t entitled to all the Constitutional rights of citizens. Amazing that it is considered controversial anyways.
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