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Old 03-09-2007, 01:36 PM   #91 (permalink)
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I rather keep my weapons, only a fool would depend on some else to defend them.
this may be the first time I've ever agreed with you
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this may be the first time I've ever agreed with you
So guns are the great unifier!


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Old 03-09-2007, 01:50 PM   #93 (permalink)
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LOL who'd a thunk it?
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Old 03-09-2007, 07:01 PM   #94 (permalink)
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Journalist Adam Liptak wrote for the New York Times 9 March 2007
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A federal appeals court in Washington today struck down on Second Amendment grounds a gun control law in the District of Columbia that bars residents from keeping handguns in their homes.

The court relied on a constitutional interpretation that has been rejected by nine federal appeals courts around the nation. The decision was the first from a federal appeals court to hold a gun-control law unconstitutional on the ground that the Second Amendment protects the rights of individuals, as opposed to a collective right of state militias.

Linda Singer, the district’s acting attorney general, said the decision was “a huge setback.”

“We’ve been making progress on bringing down crime and gun violence, and this sends us in a different direction,” Ms. Singer said.

Lawyers on both sides of the case said the decision had created a conflict among the federal courts of appeals on a significant constitutional issue, making review by the Supreme Court likely.

The case was brought by Dick Heller, a police officer in the district who was permitted to carry a gun on duty and wanted to keep one at home. His application was denied.

He challenged provisions of the district’s law that barred the registration of handguns, that prohibited carrying handguns without a license even from one room of a private home to another, and that required lawfully owned firearms to be kept unloaded and disassembled or bound by a trigger lock.

In a 2-to-1 decision, a panel of the court, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, ruled those provisions unconstitutional. The Second Amendment says, “A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”

The basic question in the case was whether the first clause limits the second one.

Most federal appeals courts have said that the amendment, read as a whole, protects only a collective right of the states to maintain militias — in modern terms, the National Guard. But in yesterday’s decision, the majority focused on the second clause, saying that the amendment broadly protects the rights of individuals to own guns — an approach that has been embraced by the Justice Department and by some constitutional scholars.
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Complacency is the bedfellow of defeat...

And when the time comes, who will defend the citizens against their own government?

When WHAT time comes?

Why are Americans so paranoid about their government?
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So guns are the great unifier!

i believe in the right of the people to own guns...

that being said, i don't agree... what about people who can't afford guns? how are they to defend themselves?
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i believe in the right of the people to own guns...

that being said, i don't agree... what about people who can't afford guns? how are they to defend themselves?
What about people who can't afford cars? How are they to drive?
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can you believe garysher managed to bring up something gay in a thread about gun control?!
Can you imagine Tristan even has to bring his homosexuality into his desire to practice shooting guns??

Who else would join a gun club called the Pink Pistols??

Let's hope his victims never have to receive his illictly provided blood transfusions
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Hmm. Guess freedom *isn't* free.
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Hmm. Guess freedom *isn't* free.
What do you mean by that smug little truism?
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