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In reply to the discussion: The 2nd Amendment will never be repealed. [View all]gejohnston
(17,502 posts)28. personal attack
and appeal to authority.
I voted for Obama twice and no. I was disappointed that he didn't give single payer, like myself, a seat at the table but came up with reheated Nixoncare.
There used to be an almost complete scholarly and judicial consensus that the Second Amendment protects only a collective right of the states to maintain militias. That consensus no longer exists thanks largely to the work over the last 20 years of several leading liberal law professors, who have come to embrace the view that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to own guns.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/06/us/06firearms.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
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You missed the hint. Let's Start over...2 classes of militia. One is well-regulated, and one isn't.
jmg257
Apr 2013
#85
Since the Second Amendment DID NOT confer any right whatsoever, your words carry no weight.
cherokeeprogressive
Apr 2013
#47
The percentage of Americans who own guns continues to decrease and gun massacres continue unabated
LonePirate
Apr 2013
#7
I fully support the 2nd Amendment as the Founders and the courts have intended.
BlueCaliDem
Apr 2013
#9
The 9th Cicuit itself has rejected the States Rights theory espoused in Hickman.
hansberrym
Apr 2013
#63
You might also want to read a PBS report on how CONservatives reinvented the 2nd Amendment.
BlueCaliDem
Apr 2013
#20
I would take Jeffrey Toobin's writings over a pro-gun individual's any day.
BlueCaliDem
Apr 2013
#25
Oh come on. What DUer here would openly admit they didn't vote for Obama on a Democratic Party site?
BlueCaliDem
Apr 2013
#55
Don't expect a cogent answer. Pro-unregulated-gun-rights advocates have a one-track
BlueCaliDem
Apr 2013
#27
Since 2006 we haven't had a full-time ATF director, 'member? And the Republicans in Congress are
BlueCaliDem
Apr 2013
#30