Big News....

This is great news! The sad part is it took D.C. vs Heller and a close 5 - 4 vote to decide what our founding fathers so clearly wrote and ratified back in 1791.

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.

What in there is so hard to understand that it took a Supreme Court ruling to decide the meaning?

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What's the second amendment?
:lol:

the right to bare arms. it means Larry the Cable guys's shirt is contitutionally legal.



I'm glad it swung our way. i was a bit worried we might lose something important here.
 
Yeah, but think about it, we were one vote away from losing everything. I hate to say it, but for about the last ten years, I have been a one-issue voter at the polls.

What's so difficult to understand that 1) only human beings can have rights (not groups, corporations, etc), and 2) every other item on the BOR is clearly understood to be an individual right, so why not the 2nd too?
 
The way it reads, it's pretty narrow. Only allows you to keep a pistol in your home, along with a loaded and ready rifle or shotgun (previously rifle/shotgun had to be unloaded, disassembled, and locked up). No carry, no transport. DC police have 21 days IIRC to come up with a registration system. What do you want to bet the the "registration" process will be so complex and expensive that few will be able to actually possess a pistol???

But, it IS a start for them.

I'm just glad it didn't go the other way. I really think that they knew it had to be a 5-4 vote. 4-5 would have brought an uprising and civil unrest, 6-3 would have riled up the libs too much.
 
I saw this onthe news right before I walked out to come to work. This is VERY good news. :Rockon:
 
Result is great, margin is scary...
 
"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation."

"Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government"

"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."

Some would akin the 2nd ammendment to liberty. Gun ownership is the assurance that every man can defend his ownlife and liberty should it be infringed upon. IF the government would try to take away your rights to defend your life and liberty the constitution clearly calls for the people to abolish such government.
 
...on the edge of political, will keep it here for now but it we wade deeply into that arena will just move over to the garage. Just wanted to throw that out there!

Glad to see this news!
 
...on the edge of political, will keep it here for now but it we wade deeply into that arena will just move over to the garage. Just wanted to throw that out there!

Glad to see this news!

I don't see the 'edge of political' in sight. :confused: Except for two post every post is on topic about a Supreme Court ruling. There has been no mention of any political party, politics or politician. It looks like a thread of information discussing facts.

<><Fish
 
yeah, i dont think that a discussion about the declaration of independance or Bill of rights is political. Its the basic foundation of what happens in our day to day lives. Lol, as a matter of fact, its a list of things the Government cant do so it doesnt matter what your political views are, your not supposed to be able to change it either way. Or atleast thats the way its set up.

I just cant believe ( like everyone else has said) it had to go all the way to the supreme court to get an interpretation!!! and sadly, i dont think this is going to be last time this right is to be challenged.
 
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