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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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| The right of a citizen to bear arms, in lawful defense of himself or the State, is absolute. He does not derive it from the State government. It is one of the high powers" delegated directly to the citizen, and `is excepted out of the general powers of government.' A law cannot be passed to infringe upon or impair it, because it is above the law, and independent of the lawmaking power." [Cockrum v. State, 24 Tex. 394, at 401-402 (1859)] |
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