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byeya

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18. For over 200 years, it was not held to be a right. So if you throw in your lot with the Filthy Five
Fri Dec 21, 2012, 11:48 AM
Dec 2012

of the Supreme Court, you'll like what you hear.
If one of them retires, we can reverse this terrible decision as well as the Citizens United decision.

I point that out on a regular mikeysnot Dec 2012 #1
Fat Tony Scalia Gave Them Backing For That Gloss-over Attitude. (nt) Paladin Dec 2012 #3
See Also Paul Fussell's A Well-Regulated Militia Vogon_Glory Dec 2012 #2
We've all read it. It doesn't really resolve the argument. nt Romulox Dec 2012 #4
Pretty simple actually. I don't know why anyone would think it doesn't just mean what it says. jmg257 Dec 2012 #5
People do love to place drafts over final editions riqster Dec 2012 #10
NO argument there. jmg257 Dec 2012 #14
I prefer Sanford Levinson and Laurence Tribe (liberal legal scholars) X_Digger Dec 2012 #6
Tribe is a smart cookie, to say the least riqster Dec 2012 #12
To have a militia is the reason for protecting the right. X_Digger Dec 2012 #15
Not a valid analogy riqster Dec 2012 #20
It's a valid english statement, but let me give you another, closer one.. X_Digger Dec 2012 #22
More fallacious reasoning wtmusic Dec 2012 #27
Lol, don't hurt your back twisting like that. X_Digger Dec 2012 #28
Yes, but of course the law wouldn't be passed wtmusic Dec 2012 #30
*snort* It wasn't a serious law, of course. X_Digger Dec 2012 #31
Ha ha, of course not. wtmusic Dec 2012 #34
Do analogies frequently puzzle you? X_Digger Dec 2012 #35
Those pesky little commas make ALL the difference in the World FreakinDJ Dec 2012 #7
Not a problem riqster Dec 2012 #9
Arguing about commas in the second amendment.. X_Digger Dec 2012 #11
sorry, like the rest of the Constitution, it is what the SCOTUS says it is. cali Dec 2012 #8
Shhhh... -..__... Dec 2012 #17
You haven't even begun to parse the words "militia" or "regulated"... wtmusic Dec 2012 #13
Thats's a good thing... jmg257 Dec 2012 #19
Thank goodness, the NRA is not the S.C. riqster Dec 2012 #21
This discussion is moot; the Court has ruled that the right is to the individual 1-Old-Man Dec 2012 #16
It's not moot at all, unless you mean "any arms" to "any individual". wtmusic Dec 2012 #24
For over 200 years, it was not held to be a right. So if you throw in your lot with the Filthy Five byeya Dec 2012 #18
Err.. it was. X_Digger Dec 2012 #23
So was slavery. wtmusic Dec 2012 #25
Change is what it would take. Lizzie Poppet Dec 2012 #26
The scope of the right is indisputable, the purpose is not wtmusic Dec 2012 #29
Okay, now what? Rex Dec 2012 #32
We need to deal with the current reality riqster Dec 2012 #33
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