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Name The Tyrant
Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2013 2:02 am
by _beastie
Who said:
The Second Amendment right is not unlimited. We do not cast doubt on concealed-weapons prohibitions, laws barring possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, laws barring firearms in sensitive places like schools and government buildings, and laws imposing conditions on commercial sale of arms. Also, the sorts of weapons protected are the sorts of small arms that were lawfully possessed at home at the time of the Second Amendment’s ratification, not those most useful in military service today, so “M-16 rifles and the like” may be banned.
Re: Name The Tyrant
Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2013 2:08 am
by _moksha
Was it one of those mentally ill individuals who point guns in public?
Re: Name The Tyrant
Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2013 2:45 am
by _beastie
You are correct, sir. It is Scalia's majority opinion of the District of Columbia vs. Heller.
http://www.nationalreview.com/bench-mem ... ed-whelan#
Re: Name The Tyrant
Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2013 3:42 am
by _Analytics
beastie wrote:Who said:
The Second Amendment right is not unlimited. We do not cast doubt on concealed-weapons prohibitions, laws barring possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, laws barring firearms in sensitive places like schools and government buildings, and laws imposing conditions on commercial sale of arms. Also, the sorts of weapons protected are the sorts of small arms that were lawfully possessed at home at the time of the Second Amendment’s ratification, not those most useful in military service today, so “M-16 rifles and the like” may be banned.
Emphasis added.
That viewpoint did cross my mind: the second amendment guarantees you the right to own single-shot, muzzle loading muskets. Semi-automatic rifles? No way.
Re: Name The Tyrant
Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2013 12:03 pm
by _beastie
How odd that bcspace and droopy aren't exposing this particular tyrant.
Re: Name The Tyrant
Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2013 1:49 pm
by _beastie
Bumping this up so our reliable, consistent conservatives have a chance to rebuke this tyrant.