Behind the Supreme Court's Gun Decision
A clear victory for gun advocates, it is still unlikely to end debates over other gun control laws
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Historical Context please
I see there were a lot of incorrect interpretations of "a well organized militia" in the second amendment. So here's how to fix that problem. The Revolutionary Army for the Americans was not an army that people had been trained like our military today. These were farmers and shop keepers, each willing to make his stand against Britian's tyranny. These little groups of armed citizens were called militias. The founding fathers who proposed the second amendment put the controversial phrase in to suggest that the it was the right of the people to bear arms to maintain a free state by force if needed. The second amendment was an re-do button for Americans if the government became too powerful. Any other way of looking at this would be silly. For example: how could an unarmed militia keep any State free?
From my cold dead hands...
It's ashame Charlton Heston is dead. At least Americans can thank him for fighting for our Second Amendment rights. By the way, does anyone think it weird that the president has armed body guards and there are those who think that US citizens can't have their own guns? I mean, all I want is to make the situation equal between me and the crazy guy trying to hurt me. Personally, I think it should be a Federal law that if you're caught breaking the law with a weapon you should be immediately charged with five years in prison plus whatever else your sentence is.
"God made man and woman in His own image, but Sam Colt made them equal."-(Colt slogan)
To the four ignorant Justices
To the four ignorant Justices,
"a well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state." There's more than one definition of the word state. Let me educate you...
Webster's New Dictionary of the English Language defines the word 'state' as: 1. Condition of being.
As in being free in order to have life, liberty & to pursue happiness. The word has more than just meaning a geographical designation shown on a map to include those who live within said designation. Duh.
Absolutely NO ONE should be appointed to the Supreme Court, or any other court for that matter, without having at least 3 college classes in Constitutional Law [that they passed], and another 3 or more classes in early American history [that they also passed]. Geez I know more than those four do & I'm a biologist.
Justice Stevens needs to read more history
Justice John Paul Stevens, "There is no indication that the Framers of the Amendment intended to enshrine the common-law right of self-defense in the Constitution."
Really? How interesting since it was the common man, supporting his family through hunting with those very same guns or protecting his livelyhood from those who would take it away, that made up the initial, single guerilla fighters against the invading British BEFORE any militia was formed.
Guns are as American as Apple Pie
Regardless of the constituional interpertation of individaul right or milita right to bear arms it doesn't matter. People who are properly trained and use the weapons responsibly threaten no one except someone who wants to do them harm. I concider by self a Democrat, and like many democrats from Arkansas getting that first 22 single shot is a right of passage.
A lot of my conservative friends are freaked out by Obama's win. "He's going to take our guns". Come on get real, what institution will take our guns. None. I think it is okay to register your firearm just like you register your car. Some say if you register your weapon then the government will know who has them and will be able to come to your house and get it. There are so many guns in America there is no way our government could get them all. Hell, they wouldn't even want to. One of my best friends say that I am nieve and don't really understand the danger. I am 52 years old and have owned guns since I was about 8 when I got my first 4-10 shot gun, The election was decided by about 8 million votes. And I suppose about 50-60% of those people who voted for Obama own weapons. We Should settle down go out in the country or the range and fire off a few rounds and feel good about this country. After travel all over the world, there is no other place I would want to live, except for maybe in the winter :) God bless ya'll all.
Right to own/possess/ guns!!!
I have guns, was raised around guns, will ALWAYS have guns! Pure and simple! The State of Illinois thinks it is above the US Supreme Court and will do the following: if you are robbed by a person with a gun, and you protect yourself with a gun, if you don't have a FOID card issued by the Illinois State Patrol, YOU will be arrested along with the perp! Is that fair? I will move out of Illinois before I will give up what is my right to have, own, possess, guns! I live alone, know how to use them, was raised around them all of my life and my children's lives, and will not give them up because of some rinky dink governor!!!
B.P of MD
How do alarms, cellphones and cameras stop bullets.These devices help catch assailants not stop them or deterr them.
secound amendment freedom
you overlook the most important part of the secound amendment.......choice... we have the right as americans to choose for ourselves weather or not to own a weapon..not have that decision MADE FOR US by the government at any level... legal availability of firearms is not the problem here.... the problem is peoples low morals...EVEN IF YOU JUST HATE FIREARMS THERS AN OLD ADDAGE THAT HOLD TRUE FOR US ALL...ITS BETTER TO HAVE A GUN AND NOT NEED IT ..THAN TO NEED A GUN AND NOT HAVE IT
