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The overwhelming majority of citizens who own and use such rifles do so for lawful purposes, including self-defense
TPM, like the series you used to run on kids accidentally shooting/killing their fathers/mothers/infant siblings/strangers/uncles/aunts/grandparents, perhaps you could run articles anytime someone lawfully defends themselves with a semi-automatic rifle. Iām sure theyāre out there, hidden behind the drug-house shoot-outs and mass-murder incidents.
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Two conservative justices said they would have heard the case and struck down the ban.
Shouldnāt that require them to step aside - since they had apparently already decided the verdict without hearing the case?
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Thomas said the weapons ban āis highly suspect because it broadly prohibits common semi-automatic firearms used for lawful purposesā by roughly five million Americans.
For what lawful purpose would one use a semi-automatic weapon (which I assume to be an assault weapon) ?
What am I missing here ?
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Thomas and Scaliaā¦of courseā¦they are one and the same. And yes they would strike down that ban. Not because it violates anything in the Constitution, it does not. Because they donāt like it. The Republican, not the Justice in them does not like it.
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Stark evidence that elections reallyā¦ REALLY matter ! ----
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The court, though, left in place a lower court ruling that found that local governments have leeway in deciding how to regulate firearms.
What??? You canāt regulate firearms! Thatās tyranny! Thereās nothing about regulating firearms in the God-given Second Amendment!
Oh. Waitā¦
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Letās not forget that we need an article every time someone with a concealed carry permit successfully stops a mass shooting. Itās why they carry them, and Iām sure it happens all the time.
But the liberal media just doesnāt report it. Get on it, TPM!
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Actually, Justice Scalia is on record as saying that he believes that the Second Amendment allows unlimited ownership of any weapon that you can physically ābearā, including rocket launchers.
He believes that the Second Amendment supports this.
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I suppose someone might get a real rush from firing off a nuclear weapon, too. Does the 2nd amendment guarantee the right to their armament hobby, in the face of annihilation of our species? Does the 2nd amendment say people have the right to bear any and every conceivable armament? Does the 2nd amendment really say that the rights of assault weapons hobbyists are more important than the lives of people who are killed by mass murderers?
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If we really were like the ancient Roman people, whose symbols of state our Founders copied, the non-lethal crumbling of a portion of the Supreme Court buildingās West Pediment moments before the opening session of a Court returning from a two-week recess during the initial months of a new Chief Justiceās inaugural term would be a much more significant story than this morningās interpretation by the MSM would suggest.
Spookily, from the Associated Press:
The fallen marble lay directly in the center of the path up to the court entrance.
Like Imperial Rome, and sadly for the new Chief Justice and allegedly sober historians, omens and portents, like todayās falling chunk of Vermont marble, occasionally present themselves along the Potomac for the casual to serious amusement of a wide swath of the citizenry and state priesthood.
Notice that the allegorical figure of Authority wields the ancient Roman fasces, a rod bundle surrounding an axe.
This device, carried before high Roman officeholders, symbolized imperium, literally the ability to command and divine the behavior of birds.
Authority seems to have protected the fasces while sustaining some damage himself.
Our President should be so lucky.
Unmodified photo: Reuters
- posted by Sean @ 4:14 PM, Nov 28, 2005
Roberts seems to following the Dubya universal hate modelā¦
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Tough shit, Dr. Freidman.
Small victoriesā¦and I mean really small in the grand scheme of things, but we will take whatever we can get.
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Nothing
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The case had been under consideration at the high court for two months,
but the delay in dealing with it now appears mainly due to waiting for
Thomas to finish his opinion.
Maybe he should talk less and focus on his workā¦ 
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Thomas: āItās about āfreedomāā
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Will rocket launchers do? After all Scalia hinted that they had some protection under the 2nd.
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