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In reply to the discussion: Had enough gun violence? Time for 28th Amendment [View all]safeinOhio
(32,641 posts)13. McDonald was 5 to 4
and if you read Scalia's majority opinion on regulation of handguns outside of the home, you'll better see where it is all going. I'm sure the right to own a handgun IN YOUR HOME will be protected, but requirements on purchase and outside the home is a different story. So, I hope you are now happy with the gun laws, as they stand now, in Chicago on DC are constitutional and will stand.
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If the NRA were only speaking for the rights of individual gun owners, it wouldn't be a problem.
SecularMotion
Aug 2012
#24
Do you believe the NRA speaks the truth about President Obama's stand on the 2nd amendment?
SecularMotion
Aug 2012
#37
If you think the supreme court is going to overturn the Heller decision
Reasonable_Argument
Aug 2012
#10
This fact is the cold slap of the wet hand of reality telling the author to snap out of it
slackmaster
Aug 2012
#30
Democrats supporting this jackhole would do more to undermine the President than the NRA ever could
aikoaiko
Aug 2012
#39
It’s impossible to give away an unalienable/inalienable right. Our Constitution requires government
jody
Aug 2012
#71
What makes the author think state legislators are dumber than federal legislators?
NewMoonTherian
Aug 2012
#73