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Throughout the hearings on his nomination to the Supreme Court, 10th Circuit Judge Neil Gorsuch has steadfastly avoided giving meaningful answers on a wide range of questions. On the contentious subjects of abortion rights and the Second Amendment, Gorsuch's strategy for stonewalling was simply to repeat that the leading Supreme Court cases on the subject – Roe v. Wade and District of Columbia v. Heller, respectively – were "the law of the land." |
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The meme that puts all the eggs in the "common use" basket ignores other arrows waiting in the quiver - besides Miller's "common use" language, the Court held that other germane characteristics include "could be used for the common defense", "reasonable relationship to the efficiency of a well-regulated militia" and "any part of the ordinary military equipment".
All of these taken together establish unequivocally that the right to bear modern sport utility rifles is within the Second Amendment's ambit. |
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| "Some people think that the Second Amendment is an outdated relic of an earlier time. Doubtless some also think that constitutional protections of other rights are outdated relics of earlier times. We The People own those rights regardless, unless and until We The People repeal them. For those who believe it to be outdated, the Second Amendment provides a good test of whether their allegiance is really to the Constitution of the United States, or only to their preferences in public policies and audiences. The Constitution is law, not vague aspirations, and we are obligated to protect, defend, and apply it. If the Second Amendment were truly an outdated relic, the Constitution provides a method for repeal. The Constitution does not furnish the federal courts with an eraser." --9th Circuit Court Judge Andrew Kleinfeld, dissenting opinion in which the court refused to rehear the case while citing deeply flawed anti-Second Amendment nonsense (Nordyke v. King; opinion filed April 5, 2004) |
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