Chicago Gun Ban

[CornfedinOhio]

    I cant quite greasp how this happened. The vote on the ban was 5-4 to overturn it. Why was the vote so close? Why aren't Justices Stevens, Breyer, Ginsburg, and Sotomayor being tried for treason? They took an oath to uphold the constitution.
     "I, _________, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter.  So help me God."
     This case was about the constitution. If you support it you smack Chicago on the hand and give them a copy. If you vote to support taking citizens firearms away then you are not reading the same constitution I read. If they don't support the constitution they should be at minimun removed from the court.

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed".  That stament doesn't take a college education to understand.

[Kevin]

I've never understood what part of "shall not be infringed" is so difficult to understand... We take the freedom of speech/press WAY out past what it was intended to protect, and then don't protect what it WAS put in there for, and then infringe all over my right to keep and bear arms. We've let the greatest nation, the most free nation ever, slip out of our fingers. History will hate us for being so stupid.
-kevin

[PoliticsAndGuns]

     Why was the vote so close? Why aren't Justices Stevens, Breyer, Ginsburg, and Sotomayor being tried for treason? They took an oath to uphold the constitution.

To be quite frank, the constitution says what the majority of the justices say it does. There are a lot of people that think that the justices that ruled with the majority in the Roe v Wade case are guilty of conspiracy to commit murder.

This is why it so important that we elect presidents that appoint strict constructionists to the SCOTUS so that second amendment supporters stay in the majority.

[Chemsoldier]

    I cant quite greasp how this happened. The vote on the ban was 5-4 to overturn it. Why was the vote so close? Why aren't Justices Stevens, Breyer, Ginsburg, and Sotomayor being tried for treason? They took an oath to uphold the constitution.
     "I, _________, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter.  So help me God."
     This case was about the constitution. If you support it you smack Chicago on the hand and give them a copy. If you vote to support taking citizens firearms away then you are not reading the same constitution I read. If they don't support the constitution they should be at minimun removed from the court.

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed".  That stament doesn't take a college education to understand.

Is this rhetorical?

[Devereaux]

The issue here that is unaddressed is how an amendment is fleshed out. If you look at the history of the 1st Amendment you see very simiilar assaults upon the right that was slowly ruled on to create what we today have come to think of the 1st Amendment.

The 2nd amendment is surprisingly free of litigation history until recently. One reason the original DC case only went to making it cleaf that the PEOPLE held the right to keep and bear arms, but nothing else, was that the court wished to see follow up litigation to flesh out these findings. Too much ruling in the Heller case may have released the wrong impression. So exxpect there to be many more cases to finalize the full meaning of the amendment.