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In 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on McDonald vs. Chicago, which found the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms applies to all states through the Fourteenth Amendment.
Illinois State Rifle Association Executive Director Richard Pearson said its important the new justice be a strict constructionist who follows what the framers set out for in Second Amendment.
Pearson has said his group is involved in one case fighting suburban Deerfield's attempt to ban certain guns that it is prepared to take to the Supreme Court. The ban was put on hold last month when a Lake County circuit court put an injunction on the ordinance. |
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| "Political mapmaking" is, by definition, a POLITICAL issue. Courts are not constitutionally empowered to usurp political issues - they are the province of legislatures. If you want to affect the results of redistricting, then change the balance of representatives in your legislature. You cannot circumvent their constitutional authority to act, whether or not you like the results. |
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| I do believe that where there is a choice only between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908 [by an Indian extremist opposed to Gandhi's agreement with Smuts], whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defend me, I told him it was his duty to defend me even by using violence. Hence it was that I took part in the Boer War, the so-called Zulu Rebellion and [World War I]. Hence also do I advocate training in arms for those who believe in the method of violence. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honor than that she should in a cowardly manner become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor. Mohandas K. Gandhi, Young India, August 11, 1920 from Fischer, Louis ed.,The Essential Gandhi, 1962 |
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