Posted on 03/27/2018 1:40:39 PM PDT by jazusamo
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Tuesday slammed retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens for calling for a repeal of the Second Amendment.
In an op-ed for The New York Times, Stevens recommended repealing the amendment as a first step to enacting gun control, prompting Graham to say he is “glad” the justice is retired.
“I will PROTECT the Second Amendment … not REPEAL it,” Graham tweeted. “Like every American, Justice Stevens is entitled to his opinion, but I am very glad he is now retired.”
The GOP lawmaker added that he has “zero intention of following” Stevens’s suggestion, and criticized “out-of-touch” liberals for attacking the Second Amendment.
“Statements like this epitomize out-of-touch liberals who do not appreciate the important role the Second Amendment has played – and continues to play – in our nation,” Graham added.
Graham added in a statement that Stevens's comments should serve as a reminder to conservatives “just how important Supreme Court nominations can be.”
“It makes me appreciate President Trump’s nomination and the Senate’s confirmation of Justice Gorsuch even more,” he said.
Stevens, a Republican, argued in his op-ed that the right to bear arms as guaranteed by the Second Amendment is outdated and misunderstood.
He encouraged pro-gun control activists, like the organizers of the March for Our Lives rally in Washington over the weekend, to “seek more effective and more lasting reform” through a repeal of the Second Amendment.
"That simple but dramatic action would move Saturday’s marchers closer to their objective than any other possible reform,” Stevens wrote.
What a gift to the nation if Ginsburg and at least one other lib would go.
Bump!
Same thing.
“No fan of Linda but good for him on this. “
He’s pretty good on guns...has an AR.
Fall and split your coconut on a curb you ancient communist.
““Like every American, Justice Stevens is entitled to his opinion, but I am very glad he is now retired.””
Of course but no right to impose opinion on us.
Apparently Nixon and Ford didn’t investigate this guy or else they didn’t give a rip. How do steamers like this get on supreme court?
Won’t happen.
“Pick’n on a 97 year old man....you go girl! LOL”
I don’t care how old they are if they deserve it they get it.
“prompting Graham to say he is “glad” the justice is retired.”
I’d be gladder if he was worm food.
“Someone musta loaned Linda their testicles for the day.”
MAYBE THEY JUST DROPPED?
So he might start to be worth a damn as a human male around, say, 2017 ?
Wasn’t Stevens the author of the Keho ruling which basically said that the government can condemn your land and seize it just because it thinks it can sell it to someone for more value to the government than the property is when you own it?
Is she up for reelection or something, because she’s mouthing conservative things?
Yes, it was the Kelo v. City of New London case and he wrote the majority ruling, it was 5-4.
In 2020, he’s starting early. :)
If the polls saying 70% to 90% want to repeal the 2A are accurate, it should be easy. They seem to believe it.
So the Right to Self-Defense—among other legitimate reasons to keep and bear arms—is "outdated" and misunderstood"?
Apparently, if some criminal thug attacks you or your family, you're supposed to defeat him in hand-to-hand combat—thus making it a question of who's the better fighter?
A Free Person shouldn't be allowed to use a contemporary projectile weapon to defend himself or his loved ones?
My God! What breathtaking totalitarian ignorance! In a Free Society, such a ridiculous notion—leaving a peaceable citizen and his family at the mercy of a criminal assailant (or, of course, the government)—is Tyrannical on its face. Nothing could be more antithetical to individual Liberty, Public Safety, and Natural Rights.
People who believe such nonsense—and try to impose it on Free Men—should be met with whatever force necessary to prevent the adoption of such abject Slavery.
Free Men can own guns. Slaves&—who are at the mercy of their governments or criminal assailants—can't.
It really drives home how utterly emasculated nearly all Europeans are—supposed men who would leave their family and themselves completely defenseless against violent attack. It's absolutely shameful, and I pray to God that We the People never allow ourselves to be deprived of such a basic right—the right to individual and collective self defense—including the use of projectile weapons, which are a great equalizer against arbitrary violence.
It just astounds me that anyone could tolerate being forced into a position of sch submission and powerlessness...
I hear you and agree.
It also astounds me that a former Supreme Court Justice with all his faculties, even though a liberal one can really believe that.
I'd be interested to know if Justice Stevens is having issues with some form of dementia.
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