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Surf Fishing Guru

(115 posts)
10. Thanks but . . .
Sun Feb 9, 2014, 11:57 AM
Feb 2014

My comments were offered only regarding the "bearing arms for lawful purpose" = "the right of the people to keep and bear arms" principle.

As an aside, do you really believe the actual holding of Presser was overturned in McDonald?

Did McDonald revisit Presser's holding that the right to arms was not injured by the statute forbidding private citizens to drill or parade with arms in any city or town of Illinois without license?

More to the point, did McDonald reverse the Presser Court and declare that the right of citizens to voluntarily associate together as a military company or organization and drill or parade with arms IS an attribute of national citizenship and that laws prohibiting such action are invalid?

The inapplicability of the 2nd on the state was a secondary argument, not the holding of Presser.

Should be interesting discntnt_irny_srcsm Feb 2014 #1
If the Framers were alive today... TreasonousBastard Feb 2014 #2
They'd think "how awful that they live with this traffic, crowded rush hours, and long lines at WM. NYC_SKP Feb 2014 #3
Avoiding the question doesn't... TreasonousBastard Feb 2014 #4
It's about point of view. You seem to suggest that they would have second thoughts about 2A NYC_SKP Feb 2014 #5
Meh. The Framers just ran a successful revolution... TreasonousBastard Feb 2014 #6
I see what you're doing... Abq_Sarah Feb 2014 #13
"Can't think of any modern developed country" Nuclear Unicorn Feb 2014 #18
Their contemporary firepower WAS awesome to them. AtheistCrusader Feb 2014 #20
I disagree. ... spin Feb 2014 #15
A reasonable view, since we'll never know... TreasonousBastard Feb 2014 #16
It's hard to imagine what a person who lived in those times ... spin Feb 2014 #17
Unless they somehow decide your life isn't worth as much outside the home ileus Feb 2014 #7
As if the Court hasn't already spoken on this???? Surf Fishing Guru Feb 2014 #8
McDonald overturned it gejohnston Feb 2014 #9
Thanks but . . . Surf Fishing Guru Feb 2014 #10
The basic point with Presser gejohnston Feb 2014 #11
Shall not be infringed BY CONGRESS Glenn Vardy Feb 2014 #12
McDonald v. Chicago (2010) incorporated 2A to the states and their subdivisions petronius Feb 2014 #14
Um Nuclear Unicorn Feb 2014 #19
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