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In his 2008 dissent in District of Columbia v. Heller, Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens insisted that the Second Amendment offers zero protection for what he called the "right to possess and use guns for nonmilitary purposes like hunting and personal self-defense."
In an op-ed for the New York Times, the retired justice reiterated that view, writing that, "For over 200 years after the adoption of the Second Amendment, it was uniformly understood as not placing any limit on either federal or state authority to enact gun control legislation." |
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dasing
(3/29/2018)
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| You can erase the words, but can't remove the right!! |
| Comment by:
lbauer
(3/29/2018)
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If Stevens really believes that the Second Amendment is meaningless why exactly is he so determined that we must overturn it?
As I recall Heller went 5/4 to overturn the DC ban on private ownership of firearms by residents, but in a companion finding the court was unanimous in agreeing that the Second Amendment referred to an individual right. |
| Comment by:
MarkHamTownsend
(3/29/2018)
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| MOLON LABE, former "justice" John Paul Jackwagon. |
| Comment by:
PHORTO
(3/29/2018)
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| Stevens was a dimwit on the Court (for which Nino justly clowned him), and in retirement he's increased is dimwittitude. |
| Comment by:
PHORTO
(3/29/2018)
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| Stevens was a dimwit on the Court (for which Nino justly clowned him), and in retirement he's increased his dimwittitude. |
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| [The American Colonies were] all democratic governments, where the power is in the hands of the people and where there is not the least difficulty or jealousy about putting arms into the hands of every man in the country. [European countries should not] be ignorant of the strength and the force of such a form of government and how strenuously and almost wonderfully people living under one have sometimes exerted themselves in defence of their rights and liberties and how fatally it has ended with many a man and many a state who have entered into quarrels, wars and contests with them. — George Mason, "Remarks on Annual Elections for the Fairfax Independent Company" in The Papers of George Mason, 1725-1792, ed Robert A. Rutland (Chapel Hill, 1970). |
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