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In reply to the discussion: former Chief Justice Burger - individual right to bear arms was “one of the greatest pieces of [View all]farminator3000
(2,117 posts)you jumped into someone's question with a bunch of mumbo jumbo BS
i called you on it thusly:
rights are not for objects. you have the right to defend yourself. period. not own any fucking gun you want.
do you have a right to own your refrigerator to defend against food poisoning.
get real, please.
the government can't stop you from owning a gun.
but it can, has before, and is about to AGAIN, tell you what kind of gun you can own.
deal with it
and go away. you have NO CHANCE
SCALIA wrote this, not me
"Like most rights, the right secured by the Second Amendment is not unlimited. From Blackstone through the 19th-century cases, commentators and courts routinely explained that the right was not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose. See, e.g., Sheldon, in 5 Blume 346; Rawle 123; Pomeroy 152153; Abbott333. For example, the majority of the 19th-century courts to consider the question held that prohibitions on carrying concealed weapons were lawful under the Second Amendment or state analogues. See, e.g., State v. Chandler, 5 La. Ann., at 489490; Nunn v. State, 1 Ga., at 251; see generally 2 Kent *340, n. 2; The American Students Blackstone 84, n. 11 (G. Chase ed. 1884). Although we do not undertake an exhaustive historical analysis today of the full scope of the Second Amendment , nothing in our opinion should be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms.26"