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Hoopla Phil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-13-10 01:27 AM
Response to Reply #64
66. Guess I need to repeat again:
You will actually claim that the logic and reasoning in this paragraph is wrong?

Some have made the argument, bordering on the frivolous, that only those arms in existence in the 18th century are protected by the Second Amendment. We do not interpret constitutional rights that way. Just as the First Amendment protects modern forms of communications, e.g., Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union, 521 U. S. 844, 849 (1997), and the Fourth Amendment applies to modern forms of search, e.g., Kyllo v. United States, 533 U. S. 27, 35–36 (2001), the Second Amendment extends, prima facie, to all instruments that constitute bearable arms, even those that were not in existence at the time of the founding.

http://www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/07pdf/07-290.pdf

If so PLEASE, for the love of Dog, do not try to defend the First Amendment. LOL


So please tell me, do you actually claim that the logic and reasoning in the above paragraph from Heller is wrong?
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