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Supreme Court Rules on Guns.
« on: June 26, 2008, 03:24:10 PM »

The ruling came down today and the SC said that the Constitution DOES allow for individual gun ownership.

The full story is here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25390404

Just sharing what I am reading.

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Re: Supreme Court Rules on Guns.
« Reply #1 on: June 26, 2008, 04:27:46 PM »

"It also struck down Washington’s requirement that firearms be equipped with trigger locks or kept disassembled, but it left intact the licensing of guns, and it upheld longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons or the mentally ill."

I can live with that....
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Re: Supreme Court Rules on Guns.
« Reply #2 on: June 26, 2008, 06:55:59 PM »

It changed the Brady Bunch's line of BS too. Now, instead of fanatic ranting, they are suddenly trying to sound reasonable. That's unprecedented.
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Re: Supreme Court Rules on Guns.
« Reply #3 on: June 26, 2008, 07:11:15 PM »

From the Chronical:

The court had not conclusively interpreted the Second Amendment since its ratification in 1791. The amendment reads: "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."


....In a dissent he summarized from the bench, Justice John Paul Stevens wrote that the majority "would have us believe that over 200 years ago, the Framers made a choice to limit the tools available to elected officials wishing to regulate civilian uses of weapons."

He said such evidence "is nowhere to be found."

....Justice Stephen Breyer wrote a separate dissent in which he said, "In my view, there simply is no untouchable constitutional right guaranteed by the Second Amendment to keep loaded handguns in the house in crime-ridden urban areas."


Utterly f'ing amazing. Something so short and clear and concise and obvious and 200+ years old...split 5-4 instead of 9-0 and in the f'ing Supreme Court...not in the foyer at KPFT.   And you look at these guys pathetic and politicized arguments and wonder what happened to their minds and how could they possibly be in charge of anything that mattered.  WTF?  :o


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« Last Edit: June 26, 2008, 07:13:44 PM by VT-XS »
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Re: Supreme Court Rules on Guns.
« Reply #4 on: June 27, 2008, 08:41:44 AM »

Excellent news indeed.
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Re: Supreme Court Rules on Guns.
« Reply #5 on: June 27, 2008, 08:43:03 AM »

"In my view, there simply is no untouchable constitutional right guaranteed by the Second Amendment to keep loaded handguns in the house in crime-ridden urban areas."

Scuze me, but isn't that EXACTLY where you'd want to have a loaded handgun?

I'll bet that whacko has guns protecting him - EVERYWHERE.  EIther on his person or on his bodyguards...  But the common man who happens to live in a high crime area has no right to defend himself.  Elitist piece of crap a$$hole whack job bastard...
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Re: Supreme Court Rules on Guns.
« Reply #6 on: June 27, 2008, 08:46:16 AM »

[Elitist piece of crap a$$hole whack job bastard...

Don't hold back, tell us how you really feel  ;D ;D O0 O0 O0
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Re: Supreme Court Rules on Guns.
« Reply #7 on: June 27, 2008, 09:29:01 AM »

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Sorry guys. I troll here primarily to see what kind of stuff the Swamper has been putting out. Lately yall have been engaged in some interesting discussions  ???

Oh, don't act like you aren't wearing your sh*t-stirrer hat...  ;)
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Re: Supreme Court Rules on Guns. Ted Nugent responds....
« Reply #8 on: June 27, 2008, 11:34:31 AM »

http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2008/06/27/ted-nugent-takes-aim-at-supreme-court-obama-in-gun-crazy-rant/

God Bless Ted!!!   O0

Ted Nugent wrote this in response to today’s Supreme Court ruling that individual Americans have the right to own guns for personal use, striking down a strict gun control law in Washington, DC. Ted was recently re-elected for his fifth term on the Board of Directors of the NRA.

A “SUPREME” COURT? I CAN DO BETTER
by Ted Nugent

It is glaringly obvious that a critical lesson in history 101 is due in America, for it appears that not only does a lunatic fringe of anti-freedom Americans dismiss our founding fathers’ clear declaration of independence and succinct enumeration of our God-given individual rights, but some Americans have the arrogance and audacity to question whether the right to self-defense is indeed one of these individual rights. Dear God in heaven, who could be this soulless? How about 4 out of the 9 so called “Supreme” justices of the land. God help us all.

Who could be so asinine as to believe that a free man has no such right to keep and bear arms for self-defense? What kind of low-life scoundrel would know that courageous heroes of the U.S. Military would volunteer over and over again to sacrifice and die for such self-evident truths, then turn around and spit on their graves by discounting the very freedoms that these brave men and women have died to protect?

Will these supreme legal scholars also affirm an individual right to choose the religion of our individual choice? Do they authorize our individual freedom of speech? Can you imagine? Them is fighting words my friends, and the line drawn in the sand has never been more outrageous.

Recent USA Today and Gallup polls showed a whopping 73% of good Americans know **** well that we are all created equal, and that we each have an individual right to protect our life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. What kind of jackass doesn’t know this? Allow the guitar player to translate for the soul-dead among us.

Keep-this means the gun is mine and you can’t have it. This does not mean I will register it with a government agency. The government works for “we the people,” not the other way around, regardless of what Hillary Clinton, Ted Kennedy, Hitler, Mao Tse Tung, Pol Pot, Saddam Hussein or Barack Hussein Obama or 4 supreme justices may try to tell you.

Bear-this means I’ve got it right here, on me, either in my grasp or **** near. This does not mean locked away in a safe, trigger-locked or stored at the local sporting club.

Shall not be infringed-this of course is another way of saying Don’t tread on me, for we will not be your willing crime victims, subjects, servants or slaves, so don’t even think about it.

When the evil King’s gangsters came to collect unfair taxes from Americans, we tossed their tea into the drink. When they came to disarm us into helplessness against their old world tyrannical ways, we met them at Concord Bridge and shot them dead till they quit treading on us. Any questions children? I didn’t think so.

Corrupt men cannot be trusted, hence the right of “the people” to choose the individual church of our choice, to speak our individual ideas and beliefs, to have individual freedom from unwarranted searches and seizures, and ultimately, to exercise our individual right to keep and bear arms so that evildoers cannot do unto us that which we would not do unto them. Get it? I would love to meet the human being who would argue these points with us. We would be looking at a fascist, and of course fascists, by all historical and empirical evidence, must be eliminated.

If you value the American Way, if you believe in the words and spirit of the US Constitution and our sacred Bill of Rights, if you know in your heart that you have the right, the duty, the spiritual obligation to protect yourself and your loved ones from evil in all of its forms, then you had best contact each and every one of your elected officials right away and let them know that you know exactly what the Second Amendment says and stands for. Remind them about the “shall not be infringed” clause.

It will not be the fault of the rotten anti-Americans out there who don’t believe in individual rights that rape and pillage our Constitution, it will be the fault of those who know better but failed to speak up. Now is the time to fortify America, and we better inform the Supreme Court just who truly is the “Supreme” Court of America-We the people. Individual people with individual, God given rights. The real America. Live free or die.
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Re: Supreme Court Rules on Guns.
« Reply #9 on: June 27, 2008, 12:10:40 PM »

Go Ted   You Go Ted  Go Ted  O0 O0 O0 O0
You can have my empyied gun when you pry it out of my cold DEAD hand   8) 8) 8)
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Re: Supreme Court Rules on Guns.
« Reply #10 on: June 27, 2008, 12:15:49 PM »

Damn, I love that guy...he expresses so clearly and forcefully what I think.  O0
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Re: Supreme Court Rules on Guns.
« Reply #11 on: June 27, 2008, 01:41:54 PM »

 + 1 for the Ted man  O0
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Re: Supreme Court Rules on Guns.
« Reply #12 on: June 27, 2008, 09:15:53 PM »

Let your gun be the constant companion to your walks.  Thomas Jefferson

The great object is that every man be armed, everyone who is able may have a gun.  Patrick Henry 1788

that the said constitution shall never be construed to authorize congress to infringe the just liberty of press or the rights of conscience or to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.
    Samuel Adams 1789

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Re: Supreme Court Rules on Guns.
« Reply #13 on: June 27, 2008, 09:29:37 PM »

We can create a socialist america only when those who would resist us are totally disarmed.  Sarah Brady
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Re: Supreme Court Rules on Guns.
« Reply #14 on: June 27, 2008, 11:12:58 PM »

Is it too late to vote Ted in for Prez?
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