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In reply to the discussion: 2nd amendment can be altered like all the other amendments the Xtreme court has screwed with [View all]Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)37. Concerning requirements we wear the same coat: The Press...
Over the yrs., that has been interpreted liberally to mean radio, T.V., computers, I-net, the stuff we are using now. Yet some here can't or won't see how the term "arms" -- much less specific than "press" -- is protected in the same way. They keep looking for "muskets" when they stand in plain sight, leaning against the "press."
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2nd amendment can be altered like all the other amendments the Xtreme court has screwed with [View all]
MightyMopar
Dec 2012
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So do we actually have to alter it to tax and register and ID guns and their owners?
libdem4life
Dec 2012
#1
Second does not grant a right, it requires government to protect a right. Either RKBA for
jody
Dec 2012
#2
Today's Supreme Court is just about whatever you can get away with. It's a clown car.
MightyMopar
Dec 2012
#15
Roe V. Wade you say HA HA HA HA HA HA HA so you wanna do to guns what they did to Roe?
graham4anything
Dec 2012
#29
Bloomberg financed the Calif. race between pro-nra and anti-nra. The anti-nra upset the pro-nra
graham4anything
Dec 2012
#31
You have a little fleck of spittle.. no.. other side.. up.. up.. right there. Got it.
X_Digger
Dec 2012
#33
Please read and understand SCOTUS UNITED STATES v. CRUIKSHANK ET AL. 92 U.S. 542 (1876)
jody
Dec 2012
#38
Agree re philosophy. I put together a DU post in 2007 that I hoped would serve as a point of
jody
Dec 2012
#41
Too bad I missed that post. I would have joined in, but I wasn't here in 07 n/t
white_wolf
Dec 2012
#42
Seems like RKBA is an excellent issue to discuss "rights" because it has divided and polarized
jody
Dec 2012
#43
In spite of DOI(1776) and PA(1776) & VT(1777) declaring that rights exist, you continue to
jody
Dec 2012
#45
I said rights are rights because people excluded them from authority to govern when they created
jody
Dec 2012
#48
So you want to abandon constitutional supremacy and have a strong executive instead?
IDoMath
Dec 2012
#7
Huh? He said that lots of the so-called checks and balances have been abandoned. And you twist that
rhett o rick
Dec 2012
#11
Ah yes, Marbuy vs Madison. That's where the Supreme Court said that despite what the
rhett o rick
Dec 2012
#12
The corporate whore Republicans have turned the Supreme Court in to a clown car
MightyMopar
Dec 2012
#13
Apparently, a strong, unbalanced executive is good when it's "one of OURS"...
friendly_iconoclast
Dec 2012
#24
Arms like cannons and grenades back then vs drones and explosives like we have now?
MightyMopar
Dec 2012
#39