Posted on 04/29/2014 5:26:21 AM PDT by Kaslin
Stevens would have fit right in with the old Soviet Union or Third Reich.
Stevens is an old fool. He should have ran for office to write laws instead of taking a job that was supposed to interpret them narrowly. He is an excellent example of how activist judges are eroding confidence in the value of a participatory democracy.
> ustice John Paul Stevens doesn’t believe anyone has the
> right to own a gun
Would that include the jackbooted thugs of the Feral Gummint alphabet agencies?
Didn’t think so.
Stevens has proven himself to be yet another elitist, genocide-enabling moron.
We need term limits for the SC, too.
Tar.
Feathers.
Why would libs bother?
A couple more wise Latino’s on the court and what the US constitution says won’t mean beans.
Does it matter to Obama what the laws says?
Living Constitution (without amendment) == bastardized rulings
Wonder if his keepers arrange play dates with Jimmy Carter.
Couple things to keep in mind here.
First, Stevens’ suggestions are an outright admission that the Constitution is indeed restrictive of Federal powers and permissive of individual rights/liberties. Otherwise there wouldn’t be a need to rewrite it, right?
Second, it’s just as easy to interpret the 2nd Amendment as requiring individual firearms ownership. Consider that the healthcare “right” in Obamacare comes with the mandate that one have coverage, or pay a tax.
Applying this same logic to firearms, ownership could be mandated under the same terms. Forcing Liberals to either own firearms, or pay a tax to help subsidize ownership by those who can’t afford to on their own ...
Democrat Presidents would hardly nominate any other kind.
“Stevens would have fit right in with the old Soviet Union or Third Reich.”
Yeah, briefly. Once he served his purpose he would have been sent to a gulag or hanged with piano wire.
and other sources from the writing of the Bill of Rights that the Second Amendment secures the rights of law-abiding and peaceable adult citizens to keep and bear firearms unconnected from any type of government service. In doing so, the Court struck down a D.C. law that made it illegal to have handguns at home, among other restrictions.
The statement “the second amendment secures the rights of law abiding and peaceable adult citizens” clearly shows the author to be of like mind with the esteemed Justice Stevens with little or no understanding of the phrase “shall not be infringed”.
“We need term limits for the SC, too.”
The assumption was that life long appointments would isolate judges from political influence. Hey, the founders were not perfect.
A good example of why the members of SCOTUS should not be appointed for life!
This is what you could end up with if a constitution convention is convened. The power brokers will fight like crazy to seize control of that convention.
That doesn’t mean the states have to approve of any amendments coming out of the convention, but the reach of the liberal power brokers is into every niche in our society.
Maybe he will have a heart attack and croak before he can get his paws on re-writing the Constitution. Same goes for all others with a leftist brain.
(Ya, I know, I know........)
Elections have consequences. We are a death away from the looney left dominating the SCOTUS.
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