Second Amendment

[ninjaslug]

So apparently, the Supreme Court has hinted that they would be willing to look at laws that have been enacted on the State and City level that limit what firearms can be owned, to see if they are against the Second Amendment of the Consitiution. Given the makeup of the Court, this isn't really too suprising

Comments

[grail76]

I think the 5 Supremes that make up the Majority are exercising a kind of mental masturbation. If States can't limit firearm possession at all, how can they insist that one not bring one on an airplane or into the Supreme Court for that matter?
I was more than a little freaked to see people with sidearms at Obama speeches last year. With these guys interpreting the Constitution, I'm ready for them to bring back indentured servants at the first gasp.

Don't get me started on the legal fiction that corporations are individuals within the law.

[dance_shiva]

Darn these activist conservative judges.:)

I do wonder about the second amendment sometimes, and what it's protecting. It was put in place when the reigning governement, and the soldiers of its army, were basically a foreign power. But your local National Guard is made up of your neighbors. All dystopian angst aside, I have to believe that, if all normal systems of redress had truly collapsed to the point that law-abiding suburban americans were really ready to take up arms on a scale that could overthrow the government, a fair chunk of the military would have already defected and gone home to join them.

The other thing being, are you fighting for your right to own stealth detection hardware and bunker-busting-missle countermeasures for your house/compound? Because that's how the government puts down insurgency now...

[flaviarassen]

I am probably more hawkish than you, but we share the
same views on this subject. I have never joined the NRA,
but I have to say that if it didn't exist, I would feel moved
to create it.

[papabear008]

if you wantr to go shoting let me know i have a .45 and beth has a .357 ??

[ninjaslug]

Dangerous offer to give me while I'm at work.

I have a few targets that I'd like to shoot at ;-)

lol

[dance_shiva]

*bookmarking this for later so she can lament that she didn't see the "obvious warning signs" of a three-non-contiguous-state killing spree*

[ninjaslug]

If the case went to jury, I'd probably get a lot of nods and "Yeah, I can completely understand that".

And odds are, it would only be one state, one county.

Unless they heard that I was coming and fled from Manhattan.

[lizs18]

I'm somewhat similar in that I consider myself pretty far left, but I also care very deeply about civil liberties, gun ownership being one of them. I think some of it is that I grew up in Alaska where everyone had guns and being a member of the NRA was considered a part of responsible gun ownership since they taught safety classes, it wasn't considered to be a divisive political organization or even a divisive political issue. I'm sure the fact that I have a gun fetish is also an influence as well ;)